Hi Royce,

You wrote:

"In cosmology, dark matter has not been identified, dark energy (the accelerated expansion of the universe) and inflation are unexplained, galactic haloes remain unverified, the concept of super-symmetry has been discredited, and the "flatness problem" and why omega is exactly 1 remain unresolved."

I appreciate that you are taking up some of the unsolved problems of observational cosmology, as I have so far found few essayists who have. I very much like your account of how it all could have gotten started.

In my essay I take a different approach to these problems, but with the same end in mind, to explore a new concept for cosmology. Perhaps in Software Cosmos you will find something of a kindred soul who questions today's dominant paradigm, even though I start from a different perspective (the simulation model) and come to the opposite conclusion, It from Bit.

Looking at both I can see how our two accounts might naturally co-exist, as your initial state seems (to me anyway) analogous to a software structure initialized to all zeros.

Hugh

    9 days later

    Dear Royce,

    I have down loaded your essay and soon post my comments on it. Meanwhile, please, go through my essay and post your comments.

    Regards and good luck in the contest,

    Sreenath BN.

    http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1827

    Royce,

    Thanks for the interesting read. I too tend toward the "Bit from It" view and believe your somewhat technical description of ZKBB might involve something like the "virtual particle" (actually disturbance, not a particle) concept I mention. I do not have a definitive concept to explain the BB or specifically debunk Wheeler's Anthropic Principle as you do. I need to reread your essay to understand the foundations of the ZKBB process.

    I would be interested in your view of "It's Good to be the King"

    Jim

    9 days later

    Dear Haynes,

    We are at the end of this essay contest.

    In conclusion, at the question to know if Information is more fundamental than Matter, there is a good reason to answer that Matter is made of an amazing mixture of eInfo and eEnergy, at the same time.

    Matter is thus eInfo made with eEnergy rather than answer it is made with eEnergy and eInfo ; because eInfo is eEnergy, and the one does not go without the other one.

    eEnergy and eInfo are the two basic Principles of the eUniverse. Nothing can exist if it is not eEnergy, and any object is eInfo, and therefore eEnergy.

    And consequently our eReality is eInfo made with eEnergy. And the final verdict is : eReality is virtual, and virtuality is our fundamental eReality.

    Good luck to the winners,

    And see you soon, with good news on this topic, and the Theory of Everything.

    Amazigh H.

    I rated your essay.

    Please visit My essay.

    Dear Royce,

    I have now finished reviewing all 180 essays for the contest and appreciate your contribution to this competition.

    I have been thoroughly impressed at the breadth, depth and quality of the ideas represented in this contest. In true academic spirit, if you have not yet reviewed my essay, I invite you to do so and leave your comments.

    You can find the latest version of my essay here:

    http://fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/Borrill-TimeOne-V1.1a.pdf

    (sorry if the fqxi web site splits this url up, I haven't figured out a way to not make it do that).

    May the best essays win!

    Kind regards,

    Paul Borrill

    paul at borrill dot com

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