<i>Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics</i>

Wheeler, John Archibald; Ford, Kenneth W.; Rigden, John S.

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“…Wheeler not only gave information independent, primary existence, but relegated everything else to the status of secondary one: "Now I am in the grip of a new vision, that everything is Information" [15].…”

Section: Sources Of Problems In Ontology Of Informationmentioning

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Invariance as a Tool for Ontology of Information

Schroeder

2016

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Attempts to answer questions regarding the ontological status of information are frequently based on the assumption that information should be placed within an already existing framework of concepts of established ontological statuses related to science, in particular to physics. However, many concepts of physics have undetermined or questionable ontological foundations. We can look for a solution in the recognition of the fundamental role of invariance with respect to a change of reference frame and to other transformations as a criterion for objective existence. The importance of invariance (symmetry) as a criterion for a primary ontological status can be identified in the methodology of physics from its beginnings in the work of Galileo, to modern classifications of elementary particles. Thus, the study of the invariance of the theoretical description of information is proposed as the first step towards ontology of information. With the exception of only a few works among publications which set the paradigm of information studies, the issues of invariance were neglected. Orthodox analysis of information lacks conceptual framework for the study of invariance. The present paper shows how invariance can be formalized for the definition of information and, accompanying it, mathematical formalism proposed by the author in his earlier publications.

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Section: Sources Of Problems In Ontology Of Informationmentioning

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Invariance as a Tool for Ontology of Information

Schroeder

2016

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“…Wheeler's remark is an undeniable statement that among all the principles, which can be identified, it is hard to imagine the more attractive one, than the principle of simplicity. And among all kinds of the motion simplicity none is as perfect as the alternative "yes -no" or "true -false" (Wheeler, 1962;Wheeler, 1988;Wheeler, 1998). The simplicity principle in management, and specifically in the uncertainty management, is getting a necessary key to eliminate consequences of the management itself, when a target influence, being complicated in its implementation, makes the new uncertainty and only aggravates the process.…”

Section: Simplicity and Inertia Principlesmentioning

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Fundamentals in Systematics of Uncertainty Management Theory

Kuzmin¹

2015

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“…Some even consider the universe as being primarily comprised of information, summarized [1] by John Wheeler's slogan "it from bit". In any system of the universe the minimum unit of information, or bit, has associated with it a characteristic energy, k B T, where k B is Boltzmann's constant and T is the system temperature [2][3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Reducing Maxwell's Equations to Gauss's Law.

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Carozzi²,

Buckley³

2006

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Abstract. Information energy is shown here to have properties similar to those of dark energy. The energy associated with each information bit of the universe is found to be defined identically to the characteristic energy of a cosmological constant. Two independent methods are used to estimate the universe information content of ~10 91 bits, a value that provides an information energy total comparable to that of the dark energy. Information energy is also found to have a significantly negative equation of state parameter, w < -0.4, and thus exerts a negative pressure, similar to dark energy.

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Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

Cited by 77 publications

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Invariance as a Tool for Ontology of Information

Invariance as a Tool for Ontology of Information

Fundamentals in Systematics of Uncertainty Management Theory

Reducing Maxwell's Equations to Gauss's Law.

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