In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 37 - Informational Cosmology 13 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 19, 2016 Scott: If the universe is net negentropic, what happens a quintillion or quadrillion years into the future? What if the universe is net entropic? Rick: The universe is defined, I believe and quantum mechanics suggests, by …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 36 - Informational Cosmology 12 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 17, 2016 Scott: Persistent structures at all scales in the universe have evolved to be resistant to decay, informational decay. They’re like buffers – like the shielding of solar systems from the interstellar medium because of the heliosphere. …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 35 - Informational Cosmology 11 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 15, 2016 Scott: Matter in the universe represents structures. Information-based structures representative of external structure, a material framework. Rick: You and I have been poking at what are the matter equivalents of informational structures. Looking at our universe, …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 34 - Informational Cosmology 10 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 13, 2016 Scott: What about concept clusters? Rick: The concept clusters, or the chunks of information in your brain, are in the order of 100,00 things in your brain. The concept of running. The concept of farting. It …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 33 - Informational Cosmology 9 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 11, 2016 Scott: How would you estimate the information in the universe? Rick: There are various estimates. You could look at the average density in the universe. Some people have estimate that the number of particles, basically hydrogen …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 32 - Informational Cosmology 8 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 10, 2016 Scott: Are most photons not captured by other things in the universe? They traverse, lose energy. Rick: The craziest statistics that nobody knows. There’s many of them, but one of them is that only one trillionth …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 31 - Informational Cosmology 7 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 9, 2016 Scott: In informational cosmology, what is the bias towards complexity, towards information, towards order – negentropy? Rick: I think one of the biggest discoveries in physics was the discovery of entropy, which is the measure of …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 30 - Informational Cosmology 6 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 8, 2016 Scott: What about information rather than nothing? Rick: The idea of information being in charge rather than nothing is more hopeful. If everything is part of information contained in some consciousness, if consciousness is the containing …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 29 - Informational Cosmology 5 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 7, 2016 Scott: What about the unification of the operations of the universe under a scientific framework? Rick: Starting around the time of Newton. Galileo did some stuff under the scientific umbrella, but Newton was the first creator …

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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 28 - Informational Cosmology 4 Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner December 6, 2016 Scott: If “guarantee” and “can” have similarity there, the winking out you’re talking about is imperceptibly small, to us, moments linked together with an implied past and set of possible futures. Rick: The way I look …

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