Time and Information in the Foundations of Physics

Vasil Dinev Penchev

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations

Abstract

The paper justifies the following theses: The totality can found time if the latteris axiomatically represented by its “arrow” as a well-ordering. Time can found choice andthus information in turn. Quantum information and its units, the quantum bits, can beinterpreted as their generalization as to infinity and underlying the physical world as wellas the ultimate substance of the world both subjective and objective. Thus a pathway ofinterpretation between the totality via time, order, choice, and information to the substance ofthe world is constructed. The article is based only on the well-known facts and definitions andis with no premises in this sense. Nevertheless it is naturally situated among works and ideasof Husserl and Heidegger, linked to the foundation of mathematics by the axiom of choice, tothe philosophy of quantum mechanics and information.

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3648917

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