NLC THE VERY LARGE

THE VERY LARGE

Let's now look at something very large, the universe, past, present and future, the 0 equal to I(tot).  This represents a huge amount of information, but a determinable amount of information (given the life of the universe) in at least an approximate form.  We also have developed so much information processing capability that we take for granted the movement of what would have been the entire reservoir of human information 100 years ago so often that we can no longer print our encyclopedias or even our dictionaries because they would be too long and would change too regularly for the printed version to keep up.  

Information can multiply to whatever size it needs to without causing a systemic overload insofar as the universe itself is concerned but remains finite in a universe which does not go on forever.  Unless the information has the ability to go on forever, which it well might, then a circular universe, a quantum total amount of information universe is suggested.  However, the singularity containing all events past present and future need not be governed by the rules we take for granted since it can exist without dimension or linearity.

This represents an incredible amount of complexity in a universe which has no reason to exist.  There really isn't a reason for all of this.  We generally accept it blindly because we have no choice, we exist therefore we exist as it were, whether we're a matrix, a hologram or a singularity.  We can say that religion gives the universe a reason to exist, but this merely raises the question of why religion exists, it being more complicated conceptually than the singularity.  However, we can predict where things large in the universe will be from moment to moment and even locate them based on technological considerations with greater accuracy than the very small.  There is no randomness observed on a macro scale.

If the laws of the universe (physics, chemistry, etc) allow for the prediction of any isolated events with certainty, which they do, then a pattern exists, even if it is too complicated for us to understand.  Given infinite time and computing power and technological advancement this allows for theoretical prediction, even accepting timelessness without resorting to witchcraft or religion.

That everything "will" happen a given way makes it equally likely that it has happened already and that we are only experiencing this set of events in a false linearity, Einstein’s everything happening at once.

It is equally likely one way or the other, there being no reason, no net change in information going from a continuous series of events to all the events happening together.  It is the same amount of information, the same amount of energy can be conserved, the rules being the same whether it plays out once or is frozen in time playing out at once. 

It can be compared to having a movie showing a chess game and playing the movie digitally.  While the amount of information in playing it is complicated because it requires a mechanism for projection, for taking the events happening at once and making them linear, the amount of information is the same in the underlying data.

We wouldn't say the movie ceases to exist only because it isn't be read or having read it, we wouldn't say that the pages of the movie have traveled to the past.  We don’t question this order of things, but we question a singularity universe that would operate in precisely the same fashion.  We have a model, therefore, in our universe which is identical in all respects to the singularity.

 A single universe is statistically more likely than multiple universe each one equally complicated so that two would be twice as complex and require that much more information.  If randomness were allowed, there would be no reason why an infinite number of universes could not exist, each one changed by a single random event.  The complexity of such as system would be “infinitely” or essentially infinitely, greater than the complexity of a single universe.

If predictability according to the rules of physics applies to multiple universes, then if both start at the same point, they would go to an identical point later on.  True randomness cannot exist without some force outside of physics, some change in information according to some outside source.  You will always act the exact same way from the same point.  If you were able to determine the future with precision, you could change the rules, but in every universe, you would have to change them the same way.  There is no source for random chance in the universe that is apparent.

Random number generators use a process to "create randomness" and the laws of physics allow this to be replicated if identical circumstances apply.  One can imagine a way to generate “localized” randomness, say a spherical radiation detector along its entire surface catching each cast off photons as the decay occurs and assigning it a position based on where the photon is ejected.  But if two universes started with the same set up, completely identical, then the decay would be the same.  There would be no randomness.

The universe is too precise, even in its complexity, to be totally random, even if the complexity is so great that we cannot figure out the pattern on a sufficiently grand scale.

We therefore do not likely live in simulation which would be subject to variation, but in a singularity, the most simple explanation for the universe, where everything happens in a predetermined way.  This is because everything happens at once, there is no ability for variation unless something outside of the singularity changes it.  

The only way to vary our universe is if there is a being which exists outside of the universe.  God, if you will, can change the data, but if it does so, then the movie of chess has been rewritten and remains the same otherwise except for the part which has been varied.  The amount of energy necessary to transition the universe from one place to another with a jump such as this at a single point would be enormous if it was done on any scale. The death of a single bacteria would not necessarily change everything, but imagine what it would be like if Julius Cesare were killed as an infant by that same bacteria.  World history would have a huge gap that would echo down the ages because the other events would continue to exist notwithstanding this one changing event.  

It is similar to a situation where you took the movie of the chess game and mixed the position of the pieces up.  In the next chapter they would be back to where they should be, a logical and physically unreproducible transition of the pieces from the mixed up location in the altered chapter.  Such a universe would have a logical flaw in it that would be obvious.  The lack of such flaws indicates that predictability is carved into the universe and that no force outside of the universe affects it, although one can imagine it possible just as one can imagine the defective chapter or scene in the movie.  

Perhaps praying has a place in a NLC universe, but if it does, it is mathematically sound only if there are multiple ways to approach time and dimension.  That however, remains both possible and difficult to comprehend given the model for time and dimension and predictability set out in physics in general and NLC in particular.