Ask A Genius 1500: Information Pressure, Unsung Physics Heroes, and Nobel Prize Politics

Rick Rosner explains his idea of “everything eats its tail” as matter under extreme pressure becoming degenerate, then differentiating into new states—essentially a universe as an information processor. Time itself emerges from this unfolding differentiation. He compares the incompleteness of his own ideas to George Gamow, who conceptualized the Big Bang before all the math was worked out. Asked about unsung physics heroes, Rosner points to Rosalind Franklin, whose crystallography enabled Crick and Watson’s DNA breakthrough but who died before Nobel recognition. He critiques the Nobel system as topical, political, and inconsistent, likening it to basketball MVP awards or Obama’s premature Peace Prize.

Ask A Genius 1422: Emergent Time & Degenerate Matter

Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner critique a recent Physics Letters D article, cautioning against confirmation bias while exploring degenerate matter, emergent time, and cosmological information. They discuss quantum gravity, information containment, and consciousness, arguing that time equals evolution as complexity and entropy rise across collapsing and expanding universes.

Ask A Genius 1104: Makes Sense

Rick Rosner: Informational cosmology has been a theme throughout our talks for ten years. Bit by bit, it's becoming a complete theory. When we last discussed it, I want to mentioned information pressure—the idea that increasing information in a semi-closed, self-consistent system, like a universe, drives time. It embodies time. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Right; the …

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