Digital Physics

April 30th, 2008, 4:39 pm admin Digital Physics

At last I found it! Yes! Since when I was a student I had this thought that some people around the world should have considered this idea that “information” is the most basic unit of the universe. I tried to find it whether anyone has made such suggestion or is there any published paper or not. Asking some people around involved in physics was not helpful and when searching the internet I always got conducted to Shanon’s “Information Theory”. I had even some guess that “Set Theory” might be also an implication of what I want to know. Also I tried to find and set some basic rules for my lost “Information Physics Theory” mostly mapping space and dimensions into world.

But then today I came across the exact phrase which I wanted to hear. And of course I found it in Wikipedia! And the key word is “Digital Physics” nor “Information Theory” or my “Information Physics Theory”:

“Wheeler (1990) has suggested that information is fundamental to the physics of the universe. According to this “it from bit” doctrine, the laws of physics can be cast in terms of information, postulating different states that give rise to different effects without actually saying what those states are. It is only their position in an information space that counts. If so, then information is a natural candidate to also play a role in a fundamental theory of consciousness. We are led to a conception of the world on which information is truly fundamental, and on which it has two basic aspects, corresponding to the physical and the phenomenal features of the world”.

When I was at high school I had good enthusiasm for reading Science things especially Physics. Here again I feel that I need to add it again to my hubby list.