It From Bit and The Unsmooth Reality

Abstract

In this short essay it is argued that the "It from Bit" idea is plausible when assuming "generalized bits", resulting from the Kolmogorov superposition theorem, as universal building blocks.

4 pages, submitted to FQXi 2013 Essay Contest - "It from Bit or Bit from It"

References in corpus (2)

• Quantum erasure with causally disconnected choice
• A Generalized Shannon Sampling Theorem, Fields at the Planck Scale as Bandlimited Signals