This project explores the fundamental link between information, thermodynamics, and physical reality. It proposes a unified model where information is not a passive descriptor but an active physical quantity shaping energy flows, entropy, and the structure of the observable universe. The work includes: A reformulation of Landauer’s principle and its physical limits A reinterpretation of entropy as a measure of structural uncertainty A thermodynamic explanation of observation and measurement A geometric approach connecting information gradients to physical forces A proposed framework unifying information, energy, and physical emergence This repository contains the manuscript, figures, mathematical derivations, and complementary notes.
This project explores the fundamental link between information, thermodynamics, and physical reality. It proposes a unified model where information is not a passive descriptor but an active physical quantity shaping energy flows, entropy, and the structure of the observable universe. The work includes: A reformulation of Landauer’s principle and its physical limits A reinterpretation of entropy as a measure of structural uncertainty A thermodynamic explanation of observation and measurement A geometric approach connecting information gradients to physical forces A proposed framework unifying information, energy, and physical emergence This repository contains the manuscript, figures, mathematical derivations, and complementary notes.
Modern physics has achieved extraordinary predictive success, yet it continues to face unresolved conceptual tensions concerning the role of the observer, the nature of information, and the origin of physical structure. From quantum measurement to cosmology, the assumption of an observer-neutral reality increasingly appears insufficient to fully account for empirical phenomena and theoretical inconsistencies. This manifesto proposes an Informational Observer-Centered Framework, in which information is treated as a fundamental ontological substrate and observation as an active, structured process rather than a passive act of measurement. Within this perspective, physical systems, observers, and informational exchanges form a unified dynamics, where state reduction, decoherence, and emergent classicality arise from informational interactions and constraints. Rather than introducing a new closed theory, this manifesto establishes a conceptual foundation unifying several complementary models—including Informational State Dynamics, observer-dependent informational compression, and informational interpretations of quantum and cosmological phenomena—into a coherent research program. The framework is explicitly non-dogmatic, open to falsification, and intended as a guiding structure for further theoretical development and empirical testing. The aim of this document is not to replace existing physical theories, but to clarify their conceptual boundaries and propose an integrative lens through which unresolved problems in quantum foundations, cosmology, and cognitive systems may be systematically explored.
This paper develops, in a programmatic way, one of the central theses of the DQ-12 framework: the possibility of treating information not only as an abstract descriptor of physical states, but as an active physical quantity capable of participating in the constitution of observable reality and, under certain conditions, of intervening in the production of mechanical work. The text articulates two postulates. The first affirms informational primacy: mass, charge, spin, and other ordinary quantities can be reinterpreted, in the DQ reading, as effective manifestations of deeper geometric-informational constraints. The second maintains that the organization, compression, erasure, or redistribution of information has energetic and mechanical consequences, which opens the possibility of understanding certain informational gradients as sources of effective drift and work. To situate this proposal in a physically recognizable context, the manuscript re-examines the problems of Maxwell, Szilárd, and Landauer, and then reformulates their scope from the perspective of DQ-12 without presenting these results as direct validation of the framework. The article's main contribution is to organize these intuitions into a more sober conceptual structure, specifying their scope, limitations, and avenues for falsification. Far from postulating a closed experimental conclusion, the work proposes a research program: if information is physically active, then there should exist open, geometrically biased, and thermodynamically controlled systems in which the transition between regions of different informational organization translates into measurable mechanical effects. Keywords: physical information; DQ-12 framework; informational ontology; mechanical work; information thermodynamics; entropic gradients; effective geometry. Areas themes Suggested : Theoretical Physics; Foundations of Physics; Information Theory in Physics; Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics; Quantum Foundations.
We present a comprehensive computational framework that probes the fundamental limits of physical realism. By inverting the flow of information—recovering physical laws from observational data—we address the central epistemological question: Is the structure of reality determinate and knowable? Through a series of rigorous Bayesian inversions and dynamical simulations, we demonstrate: (1) The structural determinism of the quantum Hamiltonian, mapping the precise horizon of information availability; (2) The dynamic emergence of classical reality via environmental decoherence; (3) The measurable but degenerate structure of the quantum vacuum; (4) The robustness of fundamental fermionic symmetries; (5) The physical origin of number theory in the spectrum of quantum chaos; (6) The breakdown of quantum linearity in the presence of Closed Timelike Curves; and (7) The thermodynamic cost of information processing. This work unifies structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics into a single, testable computational ontology, establishing that the ”fuzziness” of the quantum world is bounded, calculable, and consistent with a deterministic structural reality. Crucially, we compute the Central Charge of the underlying Conformal Field Theory (CFT), finding c = 1875. This suggests a ”Large-N” holographic duality where the universe is composed of finite matrix degrees of freedom (N = 43), unifying the spectral chaos of Riemann zeros, the pixelation of the information horizon, and the thermodynamic limits of computation into a single, granular ontology.
Thermodynamics and information have intricate interrelations. Often thermodynamics is considered to be the logical premise to justify that information is physical - through Landauer's principle -, thereby also linking information and thermodynamics. This approach towards information has been instrumental to understand thermodynamics of logical and physical processes, both in the classical and quantum domain. In the present work, we formulate thermodynamics as an exclusive consequence of information conservation. The framework can be applied to the most general situations, beyond the traditional assumptions in thermodynamics: we allow systems and thermal baths to be quantum, of arbitrary sizes and even possessing inter-system correlations.Here, systems and baths are not treated differently, rather both are considered on an equal footing. This leads us to introduce a ''temperature''-independent formulation of thermodynamics. We rely on the fact that, for a fixed amount of information, measured by the von Neumann entropy, any system can be transformed to a state with the same entropy that possesses minimal energy. This state, known as a completely passive state, acquires Boltzmann-Gibbs canonical form with an intrinsic temperature . We introduce the notions of bound and free energy and use them to quantify heat and work, respectively. Guided by the principle of information conservation, we develop universal notions of equilibrium, heat and work, Landauer's principle and universal fundamental laws of thermodynamics. We demonstrate that the maximum efficiency of a quantum engine with a finite bath is in general lower than that of an ideal Carnot engine. We introduce a resource theoretic framework for our intrinsic temperature based thermodynamics, within which we address the problem of work extraction and state transformations. Finally, the framework is extended to multiple conserved quantities.
Thermodynamics and information have intricate interrelations. Often thermodynamics is considered to be the logical premise to justify that information is physical - through Landauer's principle -, thereby also linking information and thermodynamics. This approach towards information has been instrumental to understand thermodynamics of logical and physical processes, both in the classical and quantum domain. In the present work, we formulate thermodynamics as an exclusive consequence of information conservation. The framework can be applied to the most general situations, beyond the traditional assumptions in thermodynamics: we allow systems and thermal baths to be quantum, of arbitrary sizes and even possessing inter-system correlations.Here, systems and baths are not treated differently, rather both are considered on an equal footing. This leads us to introduce a ''temperature''-independent formulation of thermodynamics. We rely on the fact that, for a fixed amount of information, measured by the von Neumann entropy, any system can be transformed to a state with the same entropy that possesses minimal energy. This state, known as a completely passive state, acquires Boltzmann-Gibbs canonical form with an intrinsic temperature. We introduce the notions of bound and free energy and use them to quantify heat and work, respectively. Guided by the principle of information conservation, we develop universal notions of equilibrium, heat and work, Landauer's principle and universal fundamental laws of thermodynamics. We demonstrate that the maximum efficiency of a quantum engine with a finite bath is in general lower than that of an ideal Carnot engine. We introduce a resource theoretic framework for our intrinsic temperature based thermodynamics, within which we address the problem of work extraction and state transformations. Finally, the framework is extended to multiple conserved quantities.
This paper proposes a fundamental framework based on information geometry that unifies quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and spacetime geometry into a single foundational theory. Starting from three elementary axioms regarding information as the primary physical ontology, we derive the universal information metric, construct the information action functional, and show that all known physical laws emerge as extremal conditions of this functional. The theory recovers standard quantum mechanics, classical thermodynamics, and general relativity in appropriate limits, while predicting new relations between quantum entanglement, gravitational curvature, and entropy. We conclude that all physical phenomena—matter, energy, spacetime, and interactions—are equivalent to geometric structures on the space of quantum information states.