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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Is 'time' fundamental?

« on: 21/11/2017 13:11:56 »

Is 'time' fundamental? Does it actually exist at the most fundamental level of reality, or can't we seem to rhyme quantum with relativity, or figure out deterministically how quantum works because we are applying the concept of time to both ontological categories whereas in reality it only applies to one at most?

What if time actually only makes sense macroscopically, but when we look at the quantum level, what we see is distorted by that very time. Because the thing we are looking at is actually timeless. The electron is timeless. The photon is timeless. The entire fundamental universe is a static and timeless network of informational bits, but our mass is preventing us from interacting with the whole thing at once and limits us to a series of snapshots instead. We can never interact with the next snapshot, only with the current one. So it seems to us like the future doesn't exist yet. But a photon doesn't have this impairment, it does experience the whole universe in its static entirety, which is how it flawlessly incorporates information that will be created in the future into its behaviour 'now'. There is no future. All the data is already there, at the most fundamental level of our existence. We just think it is the future because we have no choice but to view the world through our temporally distorted goggles. We have to wait for the next snapshot to interact with it. So when we look at this static information itself, i.e. 'quantum', we do so through a temporal filter. So it doesn't make sense. It seems jittery. Uncertain. Dual in its existence even. In fact, what is jittery is our temporal perception of it. The thing we're looking at is as static and fixed as can be.

In other words: what if  'c' is just the margin of error by which time-prone matter experiences a fundamentally timeless, informational universe?

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Observation = Information = Quantum Entanglement?

« on: 05/11/2017 18:18:01 »

According to quantum physics, the observer effect in the double slit experiment is caused by the existence of the ‘which path’ information. Ron Garrett argues in his 2011 Google Talk that mathematically speaking there is no difference between ‘observation’ and ‘quantum entanglement’ – the information ‘observed’, or rather, ‘observable’, is hard-coded in the fabric of the universe in the form of an entangled subsystem. The observation/information is just as ‘real’ and as ‘physical’ as the observer and the observed, and only when this hard-copy of the ‘which path’ information is destroyed from the fabric of the universe, does our interference pattern show up. In other words: observation = information = a quantum entangled subsystem.

If by 'observing' we are enforcing an act of quantum entanglement onto an entangled system, wouldn't we expect to mess up said system? Isn’t it then obvious that the universe is one giant quantum computer, that matter, energy and what we call observation are all different expressions of fundamental bits of information, stored as entangled quantum subsystems within the quantum entangled universe itself? Matter = Energy = Spacetime = Information = Observation = A gigantic network of interconnected quantum entangled subsystems that is our entire universe?