Brent Meeker wrote:
> It's a somewhat beyond my expertise, but as I understand these theories of > cosmogony it's analogous to Hawking radiation: Pair production produces a > virtual quantum particle/anti-particle pair. Inflation is so rapid that it > pulls them apart and provides the energy to make the virtual particles real > particles. They are entangled but they are now separated by billions of > lightyears. So the information (complexity) of the world we see can in > principle be cancelled out (net zero information as well as matter) as in a > quantum erasure experiment, but in practice we cannot access the entangled > particle to do so. > > I think this idea of a zero-information universe is implicit in the MWI of > QM. Whenever a random event happens it provides information (per Shannon's > defintion), Only inasmuch as other events are causally related to it. If you have nothing but random events, you would have maximum information by the Shannon/Entropy measure, and by the Kolmogorov/Chaitin measure... however by the "information is always information about something" pricniple (and the "information is a difference that makes a difference" principle), you would have no information at all! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---