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From tip to TOE


Silly Druid

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By TOE I mean "Theory of Everything". The basic rules that govern our universe (so if you think there are multiple universes, it's not really about everything). There are several attempts to unify all physics, but there is no widely accepted version of it. I have an intuition what it should be, which I'm going to share with you here.

I believe the fundamental theory is not geometric. Geometry should be an emergent phenomenon, a statistical property of a large number of basic objects, something like pressure or temperature. Human brain likes to think geometrically, that's why many theories are like this, including the string theory and its generalizations which have all these multi-dimensional objects called "branes". But I don't think it's the ultimate answer.

So, if geometry is not fundamental enough, then what is? I think it's information. I can't think of anything more basic than that. In an earlier entry in this blog I stated that I don't think we live in a simulation, but actually the universe can be something similar to a computer with a very large number of bits of information in its memory. I don't know any theory like this, but if it exists, it may be close to the true Theory of Everything.

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I have no deep thoughts to add this time. I am only going to say that I genuinely thought this was referring to the RP Tails of Equestria :D 

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I was born with the mind to see geometry. My entire life has been going through phases of finding the information to why that is. Even if I understand information and how important it is, it can't alone drive me to like the world around me. I need the geometric designs to fuel my desire to learn more, to create more, and ultimately, to gain the information.

 

Of course I have been thinking about information storage and sharing, as basic elements in the universe. The way for one thing to communicate with something else, somewhere far far away, and how that can be achieved.
Light seems to travel very fast, and other things in the universe seem to travel at that speed of light as well. But anything that needs to communicate needs at least two states... On and off. And light seem to only....... travel? As a wave, but when we try to capture or sample its state, it is a particle? We have a lot to learn :scoots:

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@Splashee Actually, the photon can have one of the two modes of polarization due to spin, so in a way it carries one bit of information. Other particles have similar properties, but of course the quantum effects can cause them to be in a superposition of multiple states, so it's not that simple...

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