So knowing that information as used here (not the kind we are used to thinking of) might be the wrong word, before I get to publishing, it seems likely that another word should be used. But for now the question is how does it change as it compresses.
we can think of the comparison of a black and white movie going towards a cd quality color movie. It actually works better than other analogies. Imagine, for example that you had only seen silent movies your whole life and suddenly were confronted by a "talkie." But we're getting ahead of our selves.
t1-photograph
t2-silent movie
t3-talkie
t4-color
t5-we could say this is a 3d film, but that is actually just a color movie with effect. This is the black hole of movies, so it means something more than going from color to some hokey, not so special effect. /It's about quantum steps of conveying information.
It is about recording life in its various forms leading up to real life. A photograph locks in a moment, a singled quantum of time. A black a white movie takes the event and adds to it a series of events. it is worth noting that what we are doing in such a case is...going from linearity (everything happening) to a situation where everything is frozen. We have one photo or a series of photos. The amount of information is greater, but it could also be broken down into individual frames.
The freezing into a frame is the dramatic first step. Something dramatic has happened, a series of linear events have become non-linear and we're just increasing the number at one time. Having multiple frozen events together makes no real difference; but the initial transition is recording information.
The first real difference is adding some additional dimension, some increase in information. This would be sound. Now we're running into a problem which we will resolve shortly.
Color. It looks so different, but is just one step closer to what was originally "captured" and "non-lineared" from a linear environment.
If we use, for this analogy, analog film, we run into problems because we are not dealing with quantum phenomena. But if we use the digital analogy, then something different begins to happen. Each step in the process involves another layer of information quantized in individual bits.
Each step of complexity doesn't change the original linear scene that was captured. However the number of components that are shown at once changes to enhance the view and take us closer and closer to the original. The "information" has not changed in type, only the simultaneous display.
Now, we are looking at the capture in going from linear to non-linear, but when we play the movie we are going linear again.
It is a playback of what has happened already. We can know what the photo will hold, you know what the movie will hold. It is a recording, all events are predestined. We are never surprised to see the same ending in the movie and yet we expect a different outcome to be possible in life.
We expect that having more layers displayed would result in just more of the same as a single layer, a photograph, but instead we have added movement, sound, color and perhaps, in the next layer, something totally unexpected.
The change in the movie is not exponential, it is not 2^n. Any one aspect might be a jump greater or less than exponential. The one expected difference between the actual universe and the universe of digitized film lies in expecting a mathematical progression of the type "observed". But the addition of different information yields strangely inconsistent results. Mass/energy/gravity are seen as interchangeable, but the quantum progression does not appear to involve any one of these items increasing exponentially.
Instead some other element of the information must be changing and the display by adding elements does not correspond to the known elements of progression. The progression of the movie has unexpected results (movement, sound, color, etc) just as we have unexpected transitions in the universe (gravity, photons, waves, matter, black holes, space). We end up with a multiple quantum increase in mass associated with a single addition to n in the bits of time-information because we assume that exponential changes in information only change the way known information is displayed. The movie analogy suggests something different, that the addition of additional quantum layers, additional simultaneous changing coordinates will give completely unexpected results..
And there you have it. We are not dealing with Non-linear information, we are not dealing with non linear time, instead we appear to be dealing with Non-linear time information and the theory just has to be Non-linear time information theory. Just what you'd expect.
I have to work on this name thing a little more.
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