On 20 March 2014 00:54, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Brent, > > If information is not being lost then the amount of information in the > universe is increasing at a tremendous rate as new events occur, and has > been since the beginning. So where is all that new information being > stored? How can ever increasing amounts of information be being stored in > the SAME amount of matter states? > > As far as I know, unitary evolution in QM implies that the information content of the universe remains constant. This is why entropy is emergent, for example, even though it appears on the macroscale to change the amount of order and disorder. Since the laws of physics are time agnostic at the fundamental level (bar the usual caveat involving CPT violation) this is to be expected. You couldn't play physical scenarios backwards even in theory if information was being created, and the evolution of the wave function wouldn't be unitary if it was being lost. Hence it stays constant..
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