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Information & Nature

Gene H. Barbee

Abstract


Most of nature is not hard to understand using the right approach.  Understanding involves correlating data in a different way.  Information (N) is defined by the negative natural logarithm of probability (N= - ln P) but the key equation is a new relationship between energy and information.  The equation is E=e0*exp(N) where e0 is an energy constant and exp(N) stands for the natural number 2.718 to the power N.  N values are found from data gathered by high energy labs.  This paper describes how nature originates from these values.  Nature repeatedly uses an operation involving separation of some information from other information.  But there are important properties that are maintained and thought to be initial conditions. One property is probability one and another is zero energy.  Separation occurs between N for the mass and N for field energy in a neutron.  This causes an individual neutron to very improbable.  But probability one is maintained by the creation of a huge number of neutrons.  A mass model of the neutron was developed using information values that represent its components.  The model is based on information separation between components of the neutron.   Zero net energy is maintained.   Mass with kinetic energy is positive balanced by negative field energy.  It will be shown that the model contains energy values that unify nature’s four fundamental interactions.

An information value associated with the electromagnetic field is of interest to biology.  Combined with a quantum mechanical equation for light absorption multiples of this value can be used to model our human color vision system. This links internal observations with information and is a clue regarding signaling and response in our brain’s neural networks.  Specifically, the author proposes that there may be molecular level storage and interaction involved in perception.  There are observations in physics that require explanation beyond physical networks.  The dual slit experiment, instantaneous action at a distance (EPR) and collapse of a wave-function can be explained if perception is information gain occurring at the quantum level in a zero based system (zero energy and probability one).


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