Abstract
My original entry in FQXi’s “It from Bit or Bit from It” exceeded the length restrictions (by 18,000 characters). So I’ve had to resubmit this shortened version – which I think is less comprehensive, less readable and less likely to win a prize. If you wish to read the original, please go to http://vixra.org/abs/1303.0218 or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodney_Bartlett/?ev=pub_int_doc_dlext. According to Wikipedia’s article “Digital physics”, John Wheeler defined “it” as “every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself”, and “bit” as “an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes–no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe.” My entry refers to time being nonlinear (I believe this agrees with Einstein’s description of warped time) with ”It” and “Bit” both being absolutely vital. It further refers to human nature taking advantage of this nonlinearity to travel into the distant past (via a 5th-dimensional hyperspace) and making this a participatory universe by using digital physics – the “yes-no” or “on-off” pulses represented by the 1’s and 0’s of bits called BInary digiTS – to create this subuniverse’s local Big Bang. The article "Infinite Universe" by Bob Berman (“Astronomy” – Nov. 2012) states, "The evidence keeps flooding in. It now truly appears that the universe is infinite.” And “… any fraction of infinity is essentially zero. All we can ever hope to study (of the universe) is 0 percent." That would be true if defining infinity as "space that never ends" was the only definition of it. However, I believe there is another definition - infinity equals the total elimination of distance. Describing "It", my entry develops this companion definition of infinity so we can study over 0%.
Rodney Bartlett