Abstract
The role of information is explored in a cosmological context. It is argued that this role is indeed a fundamental one, though not more fundamental than that of material entities. Beginning with the cosmological model of Barrow and Shaw, in which there are vestiges of Wheeler’s “it from bit” idea, we move on to consider information’s relevance to both the holographic entropy bound in cosmology and the current accelerated expansion of our universe.
Willard Mittelman