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Physicists. Quantum mechanics and its foundations, qubit and device physics, decoherence and leakage, entanglement, anyons and topological matter, superconductivity, thermodynamics of physical systems, spacetime, cosmology and quantum biology.
Information theory. Entropy, capacity and coding bounds Tagged papers: 44.
Bosonic Barrier Penetration and the Combinatorial Landscape of Cellular Automata Models for UV‑Mediated Cellular Communication
Biological membranes block macroscopic fermionic matter yet allow ultraviolet (UV) photons to pass, prompting speculation that bosonic statistics confer a signaling advantage. The gap is quantitative: no study has simultaneously evaluated (i) the transmission probability of UV photons through…
Epistemic Ineffability in Finite Subsystems: An Information-Theoretic Bound on Coarse‑Grained Reconstructions
Finite observers embedded in an information‑conserving whole cannot externalize their full epistemic state. Existing digital‑twin, multiscale, and uncertainty‑estimation studies illustrate this limitation but do not quantify the inevitable information loss. We formalize epistemic “handles’’ as…
Layered Ontology as an Information‑Theoretic Filter: Formal Model, Derivation, and Testable Predictions
Altered states of consciousness—near‑death experiences, psychedelic intoxication, and deep meditation—produce striking phenomenology (loss of self‑model, timelessness, unity) but lack quantitative links to measurable neural dynamics, hampering clinical design and theoretical discrimination. We…
When Reconstruction Knowledge Exceeds System Information: Thermodynamic and Algorithmic Limits
Reconstructing a scrambled physical or digital system—such as a burned manuscript, a highly entangled quantum state, or a tomographic image—requires auxiliary information that is not contained in the scrambled object itself. Existing reconstruction techniques often assume that the required knowledge…
Network Tracing Capacity as an Informational Event Horizon: A Delay-Based Causal Bound for Networked Control
Distributed control systems—power-electronics clusters, vehicle platoons, coordinated robot fleets—stabilize unstable plants through communication networks, and the latency of that communication, not the control law, frequently decides whether stabilization succeeds. Existing design practice treats…
Local Hilbert-Space Dimension as a Resolution Parameter: Information-Theoretic Bounds for Qudit Quantum Cellular Automata as Substrates of Emergent Holographic Geometry
Discrete models of quantum gravity lack a computable criterion for when their emergent geometry becomes semiclassical, and the system sizes at which quantum cellular automata (QCA) show holographic entanglement structure remain out of reach of exact simulation. We ask whether enlarging the local…
Thoughts as Quantum-Informational Hamiltonians: Coherence and Capacity Constraints on a Two-Phase Pre-Geometric Model of Cognition
A standing puzzle in neuroscience and quantum biology is whether any quantum degree of freedom in a warm, wet brain can remain coherent long enough to play a computational role, and no existing framework connects such receptor-scale coherence to any proposal about how spacetime itself emerges. We…
Non-Anthropocentric Natural Units for Area and Information in Holographic Entropy Bounds
The holographic entropy bound is conventionally stated in bits, a unit that embeds two human conventions: integer counting of states and the choice of logarithm base 2. This paper asks whether the bound can be restated entirely in observer-independent quantities, and it situates the question in the…
Booklet Cosmological States as Random-Tensor Codes: Recovery Bounds and Entropic Diagnostics for Multi-Boundary Baby Universes
Cosmological states in holography can contain closed "baby" universes inaccessible to any single asymptotic boundary, raising the question of whether the information they carry is recoverable, and from where. The booklet cosmology construction extends the two-boundary cosmological-state proposal of…
The Exponential Arena: A Reconciled Quantitative Account of Hilbert-Space Growth with Qubit Number
A recurring question in quantum information is what "space" the state of a quantum computer inhabits, and how that space grows as the number of qubits $n$ increases. This paper treats the question quantitatively, formalizing the arena of an $n$-qubit register as the complex projective Hilbert space…
ZX Diagrams at the Seam: Spiders, Pauli Webs, Gadgets, and the Cafeteria Problem of Cross-Disciplinary Imports
Diagrammatic languages are the most successful interface between quantum computing and the human mind. The ZX calculus — with its spiders, Pauli webs, and gadgets — is taught as the intuitive picture of quantum processes, and its completeness theorems are among the finest results in the field. Yet…
Information-theoretic Limits on Programmatic Specification of Biological Systems
Shows via information theory that an organism does not contain enough organism-specific information to specify its own microscopic organization. The genome is a generator specification (not trajectory program). Establishes coarse-graining threshold with dual Hartley/Shannon entropy faces.
Project Rosetta: The Approximation Entropy & The Fractal Limits of Digital Physics — v2.0
V2.0 / Rosetta v4.0 with Planck-Radix Correction + Qudit Manifesto. Corrects V1.0: transmon spectrum IS discrete (Planck quantization), binary truncation is a radix error not physics error. Transmon is a qudit (d~12), not a qubit. S_Base = ln(d/2) ~ 1.79 nats. 11-page PDF.
The Informational Universe: A Synthesis of Holographic Bounds, Thermodynamic Gravity, and Finite-Dimensional Quantum Constraints
We present a synthesis of three established research programs — the holographic entropy bound, thermodynamic gravity, and the finite-dimensional Hilbert space constraint — into a unified informational framework for physical law. The framework's core claim is that entanglement entropy in any finite…
The Two-Level Lie: The Transmon Is Not a Qubit — And the Entire Field Knows It
v2.0 adds Part II: The Approximation Entropy — a meta-mathematical framework quantifying the irreducible cost of translating continuous bosonic physics to discrete digital computation. Introduces Rosetta Constant, Trotter Wall, and Fractal Wall theorem with a falsifiable calorimetry experimental…
Architecture of Experience
The universe is saturated with a chaotic ocean of energy that we call the electromagnetic spectrum. This spectrum stretches from the longest radio waves, which can be miles long, to the shortest gamma rays, which are smaller than an atom. Between these two extremes lies an infinite gradation of…
From Peaks to Pixels
This paper demonstrates the structural isomorphism between the physical quantization of continuous waves (e.g., peak counting) and the information-theoretic process of signal digitization. Using a computational simulation of 50 randomized waveforms, we compare the Shannon entropy of discrete peak…
Thermodynamics of Knowing
This paper re-frames the physical basis of knowledge as a non-equilibrium thermodynamic process. We reject equilibrium models and identify the “Epistemic Cut” as a dissipative phase transition in a driven open quantum system, specifically the Dicke Model. Through mean-field simulations, we…
Open Thinkers Guide to the Universe
The standard cosmological model describes an expansion of matter and energy into a pre-existing spatial vacuum, conceptualizing the universe as a fragmentation event. However, the thermodynamic state of the early universe presents a significant anomaly for models based on random expansion.…
Information-Theoretic Scale Management
Informational Realism posits that reality’s fundamental layer is informational. This framework axiomatizes a distinction between the complete set of all possible information states, the informational census (\(\Omega\)), and the limited set of physical measurements, the physical poll…
Emergent Information-Theoretic Electromagnetism Proof
This document presents a comprehensive formal derivation of gauge forces from information-theoretic principles, with a specific focus on the emergence of electromagnetism from information symmetries and the relationship between quantum electrodynamics (QED) and classical electrodynamics (Maxwell’s…
Scale-Invariant Information Thermodynamics Proof
We derive precise, falsifiable formalisms showing how gravity emerges from scale-invariant information dynamics and how all fundamental forces unify under a single information-theoretic principle. The framework is explicitly falsifiable via observational signatures. Axiom 1 (Local Scale Invariance).…
Re‑Founding Information: An Autaxic Ontological Framework with Quantitative Illustrations
The absence of a unified, ontologically grounded theory of information hampers interdisciplinary research, obscures the design of data‑centric technologies, and inflates costs in fields ranging from quantum physics to artificial intelligence. Existing syntactic accounts such as Shannon’s theory and…
Review of Infomatics and Π-φ Physics Reformulation
This summarizes the main themes and important ideas focused on introducing and developing a novel theoretical framework called Infomatics (Information Dynamics) and its application to reformulating fundamental physics using mathematical constants π and φ (the golden ratio). Infomatics is presented…
Statistics is the Bridge
The universe is not a tale of inevitability but a probabilistic tapestry where every moment teeters between decay and creation, governed by the silent arithmetic of possibility. At its core, this tension is captured by entropy—a measure of disorder often misunderstood as an inexorable slide into…
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