RainmanTime
Super Moderator
I have done a lot of research into the relationships between information and energy over the past 10+ years, and I am now confident that the relationship between these two metrics is becoming clearer to our scientific community. There is plenty of evidence, as well as an emerging understanding, that information is a higher-level metric that subsumes and contains the metric we know of as physical energy. Certainly it is information that is the central question to the dual wave/particle nature of light, where the information is represented by a measurement we make that determines if we perceive light as a wave or particle.
Information has also been the key factor in mankind's evolutionary control over energy. When we learned to use information (feedback) about a physical process in a closed-loop manner, we made great advances in our ability to build systems that transform and utilize energy in highly efficient manners. The majority of the 20th century was dedicated to mankind's development of this control over energy. Only towards the end of the 20th century, and here in the 21st century are we evolving beyond energy to understand just how information subsumes physical energy. We live in the information age, and while our ability to exchange information at ever increasing rates has been an amazing development, when we finally come to an understanding of what information really is with respect to the physical laws of the universe, we will enter a new phase of accelerated development.... one which will no doubt, in my opinion, lead to "time travel".
There has been another indication that information subsumes energy that has been with us for quite awhile now. Many claim there is no relationship between what Claude Shannon defined as "information entropy" and the more familiar form of entropy defined by physics as "thermodynamic entropy". Those who claim there is no link between the two state so because they see that the numerical values of information entropy are so much larger than thermodynamic entropy. But to me, that is exactly part of the evidence that information is a higher level metric than physical energy:
Thermodynamic entropy defines the arrow of linear Time as we perceive it via physical energy in our universe of physical perception. This form of entropy governs what is possible and/or probable with respect to manifestation of physical energy events in our universe of Massive SpaceTime.
Information entropy defines a much more broad version of Time which is clearly non-linear. Many more things are possible, and even more probable, in the domain of information than the domain of physical energy. Thus the reason that information entropy is numerically larger than the thermodynamic entropy for any physical process. Think about it this way: We can tell stories (which are based in information) about things that have little to no possibility of occurring in physical reality. This is a byproduct of information entropy being larger than thermodynamic entropy.
I'd be happy if anyone were able to falsify my theories in this regard, but so far my development of the tensor math to support this view is showing solid correlation with what we know about the sciences of measurement and Heisenberg Uncertainty. In my last reply to Darby in the Fractal Time thread I proposed an equation that described precisely how information subsumes physical energy. The explanation goes like this:
Newton told us:
F = m*a ->>> Force = Mass times Acceleration (2nd derivative of Length/Position)
Einstein subsumed Newton's Force and told us:
E = m*c^2 ->>> Energy = Mass times Velocity-squared (1st derivative of Length/Position)
Hudson now claims:
I = m*s^3 ->>> Information = Mass times Position-cubed (0th derivative of Length/Position)
As a simple explanation that validates one aspect of this equation: The INFORMATION that you collect through measurements made by your human senses is directly proportional to WHERE YOU ARE (your position) in the universe of relative space (s^3). Example: If you are in a forest and you see and hear a tree fall, you have collected specific information about that event because you were in the vicinity of that tree when it fell. If you are somewhere in the middle of the city when that tree falls in the forest, you do not have access to any information about whether the tree fell or not. IOW... position matters with respect to information.
Discussion anyone?
RMT
Information has also been the key factor in mankind's evolutionary control over energy. When we learned to use information (feedback) about a physical process in a closed-loop manner, we made great advances in our ability to build systems that transform and utilize energy in highly efficient manners. The majority of the 20th century was dedicated to mankind's development of this control over energy. Only towards the end of the 20th century, and here in the 21st century are we evolving beyond energy to understand just how information subsumes physical energy. We live in the information age, and while our ability to exchange information at ever increasing rates has been an amazing development, when we finally come to an understanding of what information really is with respect to the physical laws of the universe, we will enter a new phase of accelerated development.... one which will no doubt, in my opinion, lead to "time travel".
There has been another indication that information subsumes energy that has been with us for quite awhile now. Many claim there is no relationship between what Claude Shannon defined as "information entropy" and the more familiar form of entropy defined by physics as "thermodynamic entropy". Those who claim there is no link between the two state so because they see that the numerical values of information entropy are so much larger than thermodynamic entropy. But to me, that is exactly part of the evidence that information is a higher level metric than physical energy:
Thermodynamic entropy defines the arrow of linear Time as we perceive it via physical energy in our universe of physical perception. This form of entropy governs what is possible and/or probable with respect to manifestation of physical energy events in our universe of Massive SpaceTime.
Information entropy defines a much more broad version of Time which is clearly non-linear. Many more things are possible, and even more probable, in the domain of information than the domain of physical energy. Thus the reason that information entropy is numerically larger than the thermodynamic entropy for any physical process. Think about it this way: We can tell stories (which are based in information) about things that have little to no possibility of occurring in physical reality. This is a byproduct of information entropy being larger than thermodynamic entropy.
I'd be happy if anyone were able to falsify my theories in this regard, but so far my development of the tensor math to support this view is showing solid correlation with what we know about the sciences of measurement and Heisenberg Uncertainty. In my last reply to Darby in the Fractal Time thread I proposed an equation that described precisely how information subsumes physical energy. The explanation goes like this:
Newton told us:
F = m*a ->>> Force = Mass times Acceleration (2nd derivative of Length/Position)
Einstein subsumed Newton's Force and told us:
E = m*c^2 ->>> Energy = Mass times Velocity-squared (1st derivative of Length/Position)
Hudson now claims:
I = m*s^3 ->>> Information = Mass times Position-cubed (0th derivative of Length/Position)
As a simple explanation that validates one aspect of this equation: The INFORMATION that you collect through measurements made by your human senses is directly proportional to WHERE YOU ARE (your position) in the universe of relative space (s^3). Example: If you are in a forest and you see and hear a tree fall, you have collected specific information about that event because you were in the vicinity of that tree when it fell. If you are somewhere in the middle of the city when that tree falls in the forest, you do not have access to any information about whether the tree fell or not. IOW... position matters with respect to information.
Discussion anyone?
RMT