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Given a finite volume of space, can a finite amount of matter and energy store an infinite amount of information?1
Given x grams of matter, y joules of energy, and Z ml of volume, does the amount of information that could be stored (states that each bit of matter / energy could exist) diverge?2
Rephrased: Could an 'omnipotent master and creator of the universe' use his creation to store an infinite amount of information?3 Does imposing or removing a volumetric limit to this universe affect the answer?4
In order for classical physics to remain accurate, some forms of energy must be define as being quantized (made of energy and particles rather than energy alone --angular momentum as an example). Does the act of quantizing degrees of freedom imply that the universe could be described as a finite collection of states- implying that the amount of information in the universe is finite?5
If the answer is yes, does that mean that all of human thought is finite (given our brains are of finite matter / energy)?6 Or do entities of consciousness and sentience transcend the physical universe?7
Note1: I have numbered each question I have posed to help provide clarity in the discussion of these very separate-but-related concepts.
Note2: Sorry if questions 6 and 7 are more philosophical and unknowable than actual physical concepts.
Note3: Questions 1-4 are intended to be equivalent to one another.
Note4: When I refer to matter or energy, I mean to refer to any form of non-nothingness. Matter, energy, or any other form of 'existence' would qualify (how to refer to this?8)
Note5: Pertaining to questions 3 and 4, assume the 'omnipotent creator' can know all information without needing to observe it (I don't want the idea to be rejected simply because the creator could not observe and store information in certain ways).
Given x grams of matter, y joules of energy, and Z ml of volume, does the amount of information that could be stored (states that each bit of matter / energy could exist) diverge?2
Rephrased: Could an 'omnipotent master and creator of the universe' use his creation to store an infinite amount of information?3 Does imposing or removing a volumetric limit to this universe affect the answer?4
In order for classical physics to remain accurate, some forms of energy must be define as being quantized (made of energy and particles rather than energy alone --angular momentum as an example). Does the act of quantizing degrees of freedom imply that the universe could be described as a finite collection of states- implying that the amount of information in the universe is finite?5
If the answer is yes, does that mean that all of human thought is finite (given our brains are of finite matter / energy)?6 Or do entities of consciousness and sentience transcend the physical universe?7
Note1: I have numbered each question I have posed to help provide clarity in the discussion of these very separate-but-related concepts.
Note2: Sorry if questions 6 and 7 are more philosophical and unknowable than actual physical concepts.
Note3: Questions 1-4 are intended to be equivalent to one another.
Note4: When I refer to matter or energy, I mean to refer to any form of non-nothingness. Matter, energy, or any other form of 'existence' would qualify (how to refer to this?8)
Note5: Pertaining to questions 3 and 4, assume the 'omnipotent creator' can know all information without needing to observe it (I don't want the idea to be rejected simply because the creator could not observe and store information in certain ways).