donklemencic
Please comment on this argument:
Quantum events create new information.
Information is not destroyed, even in black holes.
Therefore: a moment ago there was less information in the world than there is now.
Projecting back, there must have been a beginning (obviously no more recent than the Big Bang) when the first quantum event created the first piece of information.
With no information the only thing that exists is pure mathematical structure.
There would seem to be some theorem of mathematics, call it the World Theorem, which is recursively disjunctive. Choosing one of the branches of its initial disjunction gives us the first quantum event in our world. Each subsequent disjunctive branching is constrained by the previous choices that comprise our world's history.
Quantum events create new information.
Information is not destroyed, even in black holes.
Therefore: a moment ago there was less information in the world than there is now.
Projecting back, there must have been a beginning (obviously no more recent than the Big Bang) when the first quantum event created the first piece of information.
With no information the only thing that exists is pure mathematical structure.
There would seem to be some theorem of mathematics, call it the World Theorem, which is recursively disjunctive. Choosing one of the branches of its initial disjunction gives us the first quantum event in our world. Each subsequent disjunctive branching is constrained by the previous choices that comprise our world's history.
