The Universe as a Telecommunication Network

Abstract

We suggest a framework that models the universe as a Telecommunication Network, with several layers of abstraction, characteristic protocols and encoding schemes. We first define a fundamental network of atoms of space (Present foliation) as a toy model of the most elementary abstraction on spacetime. We describe a protocol to encode the information of distance, non-locality, and entanglement among these nodes. In this framework, we then conjecture the emergence of fermions from gradients of entanglement in the foliation, encoded as momenta in the fundamental network. We propose an interpretation of the asymmetry and of the half spin of matter in the model, towards a description of fermions as independent Network Entities, adjacent possible complexities from the most fundamental abstraction. We conclude our contribution considering several parallels between Nature and nodes in a layered network. The proposed framework seems a promising path to describe the emergence of a universe from information through the language of networks. We believe this perspective can connect several areas of research and deserves further investigation.

Memoro Ergo Sum

“…As in Refs. [4], [5], [6], [9], [10], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [22], [23], [24] and, as originally suggested by Plato himself (see Ref. [36]), the Present is not part of the causal time, nor of a classical and deterministic spacetime.…”

“…Finally, in the framework of time-symmetric models, we investigate the information potential in the Present and its connection with non-locality and undefined causality in Refs. [5] and [6].…”

“…In the encoding of the potential, we do not consider an explicit arrow of causality within the thickness of the Present, as elaborated in the QM models reported in Refs. [4], [5], [6], [15], [16], and [17]. The absence of a preferred arrow of time has been described, in these models, through a time-symmetric formalism in each instant, with a superposition of a forward and a backward contribution within ∆𝑇.…”

“…The loops introduced in our model, that we call memory-loops (as in Refs. [5] and [6]), encode the information potential in terms of possible events' location (non-locality) and possible events' order (undefined causality), interpreted as entanglement in space and time. The description of entanglement through a superposition of possible paths closed in a loop is, to the best of our knowledge, a novel proposal.…”

“…The concepts discussed in section 4 and 5 have been introduced in Refs. [5] and [6], while the relations of section 6 have been presented at the conferences Quantum Gravity 2023 and PAFT24 -Quantum Gravity and Information (see Refs. [7] and [8]).…”