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An Acataleptic Universe

History and Philosophy of Physics 2013-04-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

John Wheeler advocated the principle that information is the foundation of physics and asked us to reformulate physics in terms of bits. The goal is to consider what we know already and work out a new mathematical theory in which space, time and matter are secondary. An application of the converse of Noether's second theorem to the holographic principle implies that physics must have an underlying hidden symmetry with degrees of symmetry that match physical degrees of freedom in order to account for the huge redundancy of information in the interior of a black-hole. I have been working on a theory that builds infinite dimensional symmetries using layers of quantisation from information as suggested by Wheeler's contemporary Carl von Weizs\"acker. Necklace Lie algebras are the mathematical objects and iterated integration can be used to show how a continuum background can emerge from their structure. The logic suggests the conclusion that wheeler was right when he proclaimed "It from Bit"

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@article{arxiv.1304.6728,
  title  = {An Acataleptic Universe},
  author = {Philip Gibbs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.6728},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages, FQXi essay contest 2013 submission

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