It From Bit or Bit From It? On Physics and Information /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aguirre, Anthony (Editor), Foster, Brendan (Editor), Merali, Zeeya (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Data structures (Computer science).; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Quantum Computing.

The essays in this book look at the question of whether physics can be based on information, or – as John Wheeler phrased it – whether we can get “It from Bit”.  They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition of the same name, which drew over 180 entries. The eigh...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali)
• "It From Bit" and the Quantum Probability Rule (M. Leifer)
• It From Qubit (G. D'Ariano)
• It From Qubit: How to Draw Quantum Contextuality (M. Planat)
• The Tao of It and Bit (C. Stoica)
• Information-Based Physics and the Influence Network (K. Knuth)
• Relative Information at the Foundation of Physics (C. Rovelli)
• Information and the Foundations of Quantum Theory.- An Insight into Information, Entanglement and Time (P. Borrill)
• These From Bits (Y. Shikano)
• Self-Similarity, Conservation of Entropy/Bits and the Black Hole Information Puzzle (D. Singleton, E. Vagenas, T. Zhu)
• Spacetime Weave - Bit as the Connection between its or the Informational Content of Spacetime (T. Asselmeyer-Maluga)
• Now Broadcasting in Planck Definition (C. Hogan)
• Is Spacetime Countable? (S. Gryb).- Without Cause (M. Feeley)
• Information and the Foundations of Quantum Theory (A. Bassi, S. Ghosh, T. Singh)
• Reality, no Matter how you Slice it (K. Wharton)
• "Bit From It" (J. Barbour)
• Contextuality: Wheeler's Universal Regulating Principle (I. Durham)
• It From Bit From It From Bit Nature and Nonlinear Logic (W. McHarris).