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The aim is to discuss the interplay between information, entropy, and their implications for understanding time.

January 23, 2026Open Access Government0 citations

Information and entropy, infotropy, life and time

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The aim is to discuss the interplay between information, entropy, and their implications for understanding time.
Analysis of concepts presented by Carlo Rovelli and Paul Davies
Exploration of the roles of information and entropy in defining time
Discussion of quantum mechanics and classical reality
Rovelli suggests that time emerges from the collapse of quantum states into classical realities.
Davies reinforces the idea that wave function collapse leads to a concrete experience of reality.
The non-repeatable nature of quantum events contributes to our perception of time.

Abstract

Information and entropy, infotropy, life and time Dr Peter Verheyen, DMD from Sola Society & Academy, Vienna University, explains the intriguing areas of information and entropy, plus infotropy, life and time. Among many other issues, Carlo Rovelli is trying to figure out the nature of time. ‘We have a classical world and a fundamental world, and on a fundamental level, time doesn’t exist’. (1) To him, time appears when a quantum state collapses into a classical reality. Paul Davies ‘Wave function collapse is projection into a single concrete reality’. (2) To Carlo Rovelli, the fact that the collapse and outcome is not repeatable, these facts/happenings create time.

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