The Universe as a Telecommunication Network

Abstract

We investigate the possible ontological nature of information in the emergence of spacetime and matter. We propose a framework inspired by Telecommunication Networks, in which all information is considered through Network Entities at different level of abstractions and with characteristics encodings. We describe the principles behind Internet and consider several parallels between the natural world and a description based on networks and shared information. We extend this paradigm towards quantum foundations and propose a fundamental network encoding in a holographic perspective the information of entanglement among virtual atoms of space. We propose an elementary protocol to allow a coherent description of an imaginary space from each node, encoded as a logically consistent potential in the global network. We consider particles from the perspective of this network and propose a relation of matter with a gradient of entanglement in the imaginary space. We elaborate on the possible description of matter particles as independent Networks Entities emerging locally with features beyond the fundamental network. The introduced framework could be a promising path to describe the emergence of a complex universe from information through the language of telecommunication networks. We believe this perspective can connect several areas of research and deserves further investigation, briefly outlined in the final part.

Relativity and Information in the Present

“…The gradient due to the reduced memory left in the Present as we approach the mass implies a gradient of escape velocities (gradient in the probability of tunneling towards the mass instead of sampling causal time), equivalent to a local non-Hermicity, manifested in the PT-symmetric Present as curvature in the foliation (as proposed in Ref. [2], following the insights of Ref. [26], [27] and [28]).…”

“…We decompose the 4-momentum in its static mass and spatial components, defining a momentum in time |𝑝 𝑇 | = |𝐸/𝑐| cos(𝜏 𝑠 ) and a momentum in space |𝑝 𝑆 | = |𝐸/𝑐| sin(𝜏 𝑠 ), considering a single dimension of motion along an imaginary spatial distance axis icnT. The total momentum 𝑝 𝑆𝑇 = 𝑝 𝑇 + 𝑖𝑝 𝑆 is connected to E as in (𝐸/𝑐) 2…”

“…Given 𝛽 = 𝑣 𝑠 /𝑐 = sin(𝜏 𝑠 ), a particle moving at 𝑣 𝑠 in space allocates, of the N evolution cycles, the portion 𝛽𝑁 to tunneling, with an equivalent sampled information in space proportional to (𝛽𝑁) 2 . The residual part of the total available information of the N cycles, specifically (1 − 𝛽 2 )𝑁 2 = 𝑛 2 , is allocated in the causal time, with only n evolution cycles experienced over the given N.…”

“…[1] and further extended in Ref. [2]) will be interpreted through the insights of both Quantum Mechanics (QM), in terms of information potential and irreversible events, and Information Theory, in terms of discrete signals and sampling of the information in space or time. This will help us conceiving a description of the Present coherent with Relativity, time dilations and length contractions.…”

On the Relativity of Information in a Discrete Space Lattice Evolving in Atomic Instants

“…[1] and extended in Ref. [2], will be briefly described. From a quantum of time and an absolute speed of causality, we will define a discrete and flat spacetime.…”