Information-Copying Cosmology (ICC) is a theoretical framework in which spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from a discrete network of CPTP (Completely Positive Trace-Preserving) channels — local operators that copy and transform quantum information. Time defects are introduced as alternative unitary branches, not violations of unitarity. The geometry of the channel space is defined by the Bures metric on Choi–Jamiołkowski states. All deviations from scale invariance are controlled by a single dimensionless invariant g = λ·p·dB², where p is the defect probability and dB is the Bures distance. The renormalization group flow of g is uniquely determined as dg/dln k = γ·g· (1-g), the logistic β-function. From this single equation, three independent falsifiable predictions are derived: 1. Positive running of the spectral index (αₛ > 0, order +10^-3 to +10^-2) 2. Positive local non-Gaussianity correlated with scale (fNL ≈ 2. 5) 3. Scale-dependent, non-Markovian decoherence (Γ (L) ∝ g (L) ) These predictions distinguish ICC from both ΛCDM and inflationary models. The framework also offers a statistical derivation of the Born rule, decoherence, and entanglement entropy, as well as a natural resolution of the Hubble tension (H₀ ≈ 73. 1 km/s/Mpc) and baryogenesis (ηB ∝ g₀^1+1/γ). This Zenodo series contains the complete axiomatic formulation of ICC: - v0: Survival layer (independence lemma, RG derivation, consistency checks, dependency graph) - v1: Core I–II (axioms, CPTP network, Bures geometry) - v2: Core III + Cosmology (RG flow, CMB predictions, falsification table) - v3: Core V + Quantum (effective field degrees of freedom, decoherence, entanglement) - v4: Mathematical appendices + Uniqueness theorem All documents are released under CC-BY 4. 0 license. Author ORCID: 0009-0001-5952-9887.
Alik Gimranov (Mon,) studied this question.