In last years, we are witnessing a trend, of trying to describe the laws of nature using informational tools instead of by functional tools. This change towards more abstract description of the nature, is a natural development, as from the time of the Greeks, through the time of Newton, followed by Analytical Mechanics, all the way up to General Relativity and String Theory, there was always a preference to the more abstract and general description of nature. The reason we prefer the more general and abstract descriptions, is that they give us a more objective point of view at the laws of Nature, which allow us more effectively to separate between Phenomena that are the manifestation of the deep laws of Nature, and Phenomena that are just being resulted by our very specific point of view at the universe, and the specific description that we have decided to give it. The more abstract descriptions give us a better frame of reference in our attempted to understand the origins of the laws of Physics. Informational description of the Universe is suspected to be better than the Functional description, as it is a more abstract and general point of view of the Universe, and yet, there is no complete and simple way to translate every Physical Theory to informational language. In this article I have attempted to do just that, by taking two tied Philosophical arguments, and giving them a Formal and Mathematical meaning, by so upgrading them into Physical Principals. The first Principle is the idea that the only objective thing in Nature, that does not depend at the observer point of view, is the different options that realty can exist in. This set of options of reality is meaningless and lacks structure in any way besides their combined number (cardinality), and I name these options of reality “cosmoses”. The second Principle is that there are observers, that are bound to one option of reality, but unable to separate between their cosmos to other cosmoses. This inability to completely know in what cosmos they do exist, creates a local structure. This structure, and the way it changes over time is what creates the structure of the universe that the observers (including you dear reader) measure. By using this simple language, I was able to suggest some new tools and predictions.
In last years, we are witnessing a trend, of trying to describe the laws of nature using informational tools instead of by functional tools. This change towards more abstract description of the nature, is a natural development, as from the time of the Greeks, through the time of Newton, followed by Analytical Mechanics, all the way up to General Relativity and String Theory, there was always a preference to the more abstract and general description of nature. The reason we prefer the more general and abstract descriptions, is that they give us a more objective point of view at the laws of Nature, which allow us more effectively to separate between Phenomena that are the manifestation of the deep laws of Nature, and Phenomena that are just being resulted by our very specific point of view at the universe, and the specific description that we have decided to give it. The more abstract descriptions give us a better frame of reference in our attempted to understand the origins of the laws of Physics. Informational description of the Universe is suspected to be better than the Functional description, as it is a more abstract and general point of view of the Universe, and yet, there is no complete and simple way to translate every Physical Theory to informational language. In this article I have attempted to do just that, by taking two tied Philosophical arguments, and giving them a Formal and Mathematical meaning, by so upgrading them into Physical Principals. The first Principle is the idea that the only objective thing in Nature, that does not depend at the observer point of view, is the different options that realty can exist in. This set of options of reality is meaningless and lacks structure in any way besides their combined number (cardinality), and I name these options of reality “cosmoses”. The second Principle is that there are observers, that are bound to one option of reality, but unable to separate between their cosmos to other cosmoses. This inability to completely know in what cosmos they do exist, creates a local structure. This structure, and the way it changes over time is what creates the structure of the universe that the observers (including you dear reader) measure. By using this simple language, I was able to suggest some new tools and predictions.
Abstract. At this point in time, two major areas of physics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, rest on the foundations of probability and entropy. The last century saw several significant fundamental advances in our understanding of the process of inference, which make it clear that these are inferential theories. That is, rather than being a description of the behavior of the universe, these theories describe how observers can make optimal predictions about the universe. In such a picture, information plays a critical role. What is more is that little clues, such as the fact that black holes have entropy, continue to suggest that information is fundamental to physics in general. In the last decade, our fundamental understanding of probability theory has led to a Bayesian revolution. In addition, we have come to recognize that the foundations go far deeper and that Cox’s approach of generalizing a Boolean algebra to a probability calculus is the first specific example of the more fundamental idea of assigning valuations to partially-ordered sets. By considering this as a natural way to introduce quantification to the more fundamental notion of ordering, one obtains an entirely new way of deriving physical laws. I will introduce this new way of thinking by demonstrating how one can quantify partially-ordered sets and, in the process, derive physical laws. The implication is that physical law does not reflect the order in the universe, instead it is derived from the order imposed by our description of the universe. Information physics, which is based on understanding the ways in which we both quantify and process information about the world around us, is a fundamentally new approach to science.
At this point in time, two major areas of physics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, rest on the foundations of probability and entropy. The last century saw several significant fundamental advances in our understanding of the process of inference, which make it clear that these are inferential theories. That is, rather than being a description of the behavior of the universe, these theories describe how observers can make optimal predictions about the universe. In such a picture, information plays a critical role. What is more is that little clues, such as the fact that black holes have entropy, continue to suggest that information is fundamental to physics in general. In the last decade, our fundamental understanding of probability theory has led to a Bayesian revolution. In addition, we have come to recognize that the foundations go far deeper and that Cox's approach of generalizing a Boolean algebra to a probability calculus is the first specific example of the more fundamental idea of assigning valuations to partially-ordered sets. By considering this as a natural way to introduce quantification to the more fundamental notion of ordering, one obtains an entirely new way of deriving physical laws. I will introduce this new way of thinking by demonstrating how one can quantify partially-ordered sets and, in the process, derive physical laws. The implication is that physical law does not reflect the order in the universe, instead it is derived from the order imposed by our description of the universe. Information physics, which is based on understanding the ways in which we both quantify and process information about the world around us, is a fundamentally new approach to science.
By offering mathematical frameworks and experimental techniques for characterising matter, energy, space, time, and their interactions, physics plays a crucial role in comprehending the nature of reality. The evolution of contemporary physics, from classical mechanics and electromagnetism to quantum mechanics and relativity, has profoundly altered our comprehension of the cosmos and put traditional ideas of determinism, locality, causation, and observation to the test. The contribution of modern physics theories to our comprehension of reality at the microscopic and cosmological sizes is examined in this paper. The measurement problem, entanglement, quantum information, quantum physics, and the connection between physical information and the emergence of observable reality are all given special emphasis. The study also looks at how understanding space, time, matter, and the structure of the cosmos is affected by general relativity, quantum field theory, and new theories of quantum gravity. Additionally, the potential connection between information, awareness, and physical processes is rigorously examined, separating accepted scientific findings from theoretical and philosophical interpretations. The study shows that relationships, information, and physical rules may be a more fundamental way to define reality than traditional ideas of independently existent objects by combining findings from theoretical physics, quantum information science, and philosophy of physics. The study concludes that while unanswered problems about quantum measurement, the origin of spacetime, and consciousness point to significant avenues for future multidisciplinary research, physics is still a potent framework for examining fundamental reality.
Along with weaving together observations, experiments, and theoretical constructs into a coherent mesh of understanding of the world around us, physics over its past five centuries has continuously refined the base concepts on which the whole framework is built. In quantum physics, first in non-relativistic mechanics and later in quantum field theories, even familiar concepts of position, momentum, wave or particle, are derived constructs from the classical limit in which we live but not intrinsic to the underlying physics. Most crucially, the very idea of the individual, whether an object or an event, distinguished only in a mere label of identity from others identical to it in all the physics, exists only as an approximation, not an element of underlying reality. Failure to recognize this and seeking alternative explanations in many worlds or multiverses leads only to incoherent logic and incorrect physics. As an example, in a physical system such as an atom in a particular state, physics deals with the universal system of all such atoms but makes no meaningful prediction of the position of an electron or the time of decay of any specific atom. Those are incidental, entirely random among all possible positions and times, even while physics makes very precise predictions for the distribution of the outcomes in measurements on atoms in that state. Physics deals with the universal, not the individual.