A Unification of Information and Matter

Martin Bodo Plenio

Wen-Ran Zhang

It is shown that an unexpected logical exposition of Dirac 3-polarizer experiment leads to a bipolar equilibrium-based geometrical and logical architecture for the unification of mind, light and matter. It is argued that, without light as a bridge, mind-matter unification would be impossible. An axiomatic proof is presented for the unification with an extension to Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Bipolar knowledge representation is illustrated in computational psychopharmacology and information conservational quantum computing. The logical basis of this work is philosophically distinguished from that of Aristotle, Leibniz and Bohr.

Rolf W. Landauer

Xiao-Gang Wen

Xiao-Gang Wen

Newton's mechanical revolution unifies the motion of planets in the sky and the falling of apples on Earth. Maxwell's electromagnetic revolution unifies electricity, magnetism, and light. Einstein's relativistic revolution unifies space with time, and gravity with space-time distortion. The quantum revolution unifies particle with waves, and energy with frequency. Each of those revolution changes our world view. In this article, we will describe a revolution that is happening now: the second quantum revolution which unifies matter/space with information. In other words, the new world view suggests that elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) all originated from quantum information (qubits): they are collective excitations of an entangled qubit ocean that corresponds to our space. The beautiful geometric Yang-Mills gauge theory and the strange Fermi statistics of matter particles now have a common algebraic quantum informational origin.