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I suggest that
"IT from SIX orthogonal sets of  BITS."
would best describe the universe.

As Maxwell noted,
A measurement consists of two parts,
a standard unit,
and the number of standard units in the quantity being considered.

And as Maxwell showed,
all standard units can be classified in terms
of a few orthogonal FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES,
and constants.

Maxwell selected time, mass, and a three-dimensional vector (del factor)
as fundamental properties,
and used permeability to link these properties to the magnetic properties,
and permittivity to link these properties to the electric properties,

In other words,
you need BINARY NUMBERS
to specify the number of units of SIX fundamental property.

You don't need the constants, as they serve only as binary to decimal
converters.

As shown by the article on my web site:
"Uniting the four forces."
only one fundamental property (Impedance),
rather than two ( Permeability and permittivity),
is needed to couple the mechanical properties
(Time, space and mass) to the electrical and magnetic properties,
and this brings units of charge into play.

What this means is that we recognize six fundamental properties,
time, three orthogonal space properties (X, Y and Z), charge,
and impedance.

The bottom line is that you need a set of six binary numbers
to map an "IT" in time, space, charge and impedance.

One's clock serves to quantize the number of BITs
(Ticks/events/cycles/photons/action units)
(An event by any other name..)
in five of the six orthogonal properties,
and a count quantizes the other property (Charge).

1. The selection of a clock sets the time units.
2. Time units (Intervals) are the most fundamental measure
of the three orthogonal space.)
3. Times and space are related to masses by Kepler's Equation.
mass * constant = space^3 / time^2

Now it may be that imaginary numbers can be used
to express time, spaces and mass as one property.

If one assumes that only one of the six orthogonal properties
can occur at one point in time,
one could make a case for "IT from BIT.",
but it is obvious that things can simultaneously move through
x, y, and z space at different velocities
(Thus modifying a fourth property, mass.)

--
Tom Potter

http://www.tompotter.us



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