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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Energy and Quantum Information


So far we have paid our attention to the nature of energy on its potency, its capability to generate power and strength. There is another aspect of the energy which hardly any physicist is touching namely its capability to store and process the information. The power and information are two sides of the same coin.  


Let us revisit the phenomenon of the wave-particle duality as diagrammatically shown in Figure-1. A particle which we perceive subsisting through time is, in reality, a series of different but similar particles appear and disappear successively.

Particle "A" disappears as one moment passes, and new particle "B" appears as the next moment arrives. This process takes place perpetually so that another new particle "C," "D," "E" and so forth appears and disappears successively. We wrongly perceive as though all those different particles are the same particle ("A") like a bullet flying through the air.

So what bewilders us more is that those processes take place simultaneously upon all particles in the whole universe. Even though there is a gap of nothingness between the two consecutive moments of the appearance of the whole universe, the order in macroscopic level is rigorously maintained. We, our form and shape appear to be the same today and tomorrow. A chair will remain the same as of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and never randomly changes to become a table.

So what does this imply?  Energy, which survives throughout the whole process of creation and annihilation, should possess a sort of information that it carries and processes along with at the speed of light.  At the quantum level, energy performs like small processing units which are integrated at macroscopic level as a large supercomputer processing all those information at the speed of light.

The appearance and disappearance of matter to and fro energy might function as natural binary digits which are the basis of quantum computation. It opens to a new era of information technology. Some physicists1 seriously consider the possibility to tap and wangle this quantum processing which will radically change, one way or another, the conventional methods of information processing.

What is life?

The natural capability to store and process the information, in psychic terms, is called awareness. At a higher degree, we may call it consciousness and intelligence. The higher the dimensions of energy are, the higher the degree of its consciousness and intelligence. The [four-dimensional] energy which is intimately related to matter possesses the lowest degree of awareness. Those related to the plant, animal, and human possess higher and higher dimensions, thus, higher capacity and capability in carrying and processing the information.

Plants and animals might evolve for the better, but this evolution cannot pass through the barrier of their owned energy dimensionality. There is no missing link between the plant and animal kingdoms and between the latter with that of human, just because there are no links between them. Darwin's evolution theory was correct but within the corridor of the respective kingdom.

Schrodingerwas one of the prominent physicists who tried to embark on the study of life. Physicists, who are interested in doing so more deeply, should be prepared to confront something having infinite-dimensionality.

REFERENCES:

1.      Jurgen, A., et al.:” Entangled World”, Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim, 2006
2.      Schrodinger, E.:” What is life”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1967


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