the physics of information

quirks and quarks has been running outstanding science programming on cbc for years. in a recent edition the idea that information has physical quantifiable features was discussed. diligent readers of the golden fish will recall a recent posting suggesting that there is something of the virtual reality to this universe. this posting seems to be serendiptously a natural segue into the next layer of the thinking around that possibility.

here's where you want go to find out something of the preamble and basic ideas behind the program which dates back to january 5. 2008.

here's the mp3 of the program itself.

my own inclinations in terms of the organization of reality have favoured the thinking of david bohm, a quantum physicist who posited a construct within which their exists an implicate and explicate order. bohm's thinking supports a more interrelated, fluid, and less absolute basis of existence, one in which mind is actually an active participant. one in which information contributes fundamentally to the qualities of substance. we define, describe, perceive, measure and know our reality through our own perceptions.

oh, and the form of each quantum component is holographic. bohm's work in subatomic physics describes a universe in which physical entities which seem to be separate and discrete in space and time are actually unified in an implicit or underlying fashion. under an unfolded order of separate things and events is an enfolded order of undivided wholeness, and this whole is simultaneously available to each unfolded part. the enfolded order harbors our reality, much as the dna in the nucleus of the cell conceals potential life and directs the nature of its unfolding.

so, the universe is a gigantic hologram, with each part being in the whole and the whole being in each part. every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos.

go here for more thinking about david bohm.