A non-scientist. I have a strong interest in the nature of reality. I came to this website from a search I did on the question of whether or not information is conserved.

Welcome and thank you for posting and the link. Stimulating conversation does occasionally break out in this space. Enjoy. --DavidSiegel

Welcome==== Enjoy the site! There are several here also interested in information including the how and why information is conserved or lost. ---StarPilot

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There is an energy information equivalence. See for example [[|http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/recentpapers/2004physicalrelationshipsamongmatterenergyinformationumpleby.htm Umplby]] A bit of information equals the Plank action (Zeiglinger), which all energy, the data suggests (Heisenberg/Einstein), is composed of.

In the quantum, energy is not necessarily conserved, but is on average. The direct relationship is between minimum action, the Plank action and binary discrimination. Differences by nature add, cancel or fold and are not necessarily conserved but tend to be in ecologies of information. --JimScarver

You must say what you mean by information. The Mandelbrott set may be expressed in less than 100 bits of information, yet it manifests infinate variety. Similarly, and perhaps more fundimentally, our universe appears to exhibit inflationary complextity, and even inflationary energy as atoms and light emerged billions of years ago. At the same time, technically, we simply repurpose old propagating difference information in a new way. Each bit has two perspectives. Each answer begs two questions. Information is explosive but breaths entropy. Perspectives multiply information by dividing it. --JimScarver