The Building Blocks of Information Are Selections – Let’s Define Them Globally!

Abstract

Digital information consists of sequences of numbers that are selections. So far, these are defined by context. We can globalize this by using an efficient global pointer (UL) as “context”. The article explains new globally identified and defined “Domain Vectors” (DVs) for transporting digital information. They have the structure “UL plus sequence of numbers”, where UL is an efficient identifier and global pointer (link) to the unified online definition of the sequence of numbers. Thus, the format of the number sequence and its meaning is defined online. This opens up far-reaching new possibilities for the efficient exchange, comparison and search of information. It can form the basis for a new global framework that improves the reproducibility, search, and exchange of data across systems, borders, and languages.

All Physical Information Is Discretely Connected From the Beginning and All Geometrical Appearance Is a Delayed Statistical Consequence

“…It is mentioned that the digital application (2) of (1) has great potential, as this enables the systematic implementation of more and more precisely comparable and globally searchable digital information. This has been addressed in previous publications [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In this context it was mentioned [3] that the definition (1) also has fundamental consequences for physics.…”

“…There is a lot of literature on information theoretic approaches, also in physics. However, apart from own literature [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], there seem to be no other publications with an (exact) informationtheoretic approach resulting from definition (1). In the last publication [3], which delves into the application of (1) in computer science, it has already been pointed out in Section 4.7 that the application of (1) in physics would also be an important topic for further research.…”

We Can Define the Domain of Information Online and Thus Globally Uniformly

“…If an appropriate infrastructure is available, it is sufficient to prefix given digital information (number sequence) with the global pointer to its online definition. I have published [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] on this and called the resulting data structure "Domain Vector" or "DV" for short. It has the structure: DV: UL plus number sequence (1) Here, "UL" is a "Uniform Locator" which is an efficient global pointer to the machinereadable, unique online definition of the number sequence.…”