What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics

[erronis]

https://scitechdaily.com/what-if-the-universe-remembers-everything-new-theory-rewrites-the-rules-of-physics/
Florian Neukart, Leiden University

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory.

For over a hundred years, physics has rested on two foundational theories. Einstein’s general relativity describes gravity as the curvature of space and time, while quantum mechanics governs the behavior of particles and fields.

Each theory is highly successful within its own domain, yet combining them leads to contradictions, particularly in relation to black holes, dark matter, dark energy, and the origins of the universe.

My colleagues and I have been exploring a new way to bridge that divide. The idea is to treat information – not matter, not energy, not even spacetime itself – as the most fundamental ingredient of reality. We call this framework the quantum memory matrix (QMM).

Spacetime as discrete memory cells

At its core is a simple but powerful claim: spacetime is not smooth, but discrete – made of tiny “cells”, which is what quantum mechanics suggests. Each cell can store a quantum imprint of every interaction, like the passage of a particle or even the influence of a force such as electromagnetism or nuclear interactions, that passes through. Each event leaves behind a tiny change in the local quantum state of the spacetime cell.

In other words, the universe does not just evolve. It remembers.

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[Midnight Writer]

1. Akashic Records?

Our Mystery Schools seem to have been closer to the truth than modern scientists like to admit
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[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Give us a credible example. . . . .nt

[erronis]

8. I need to expand my little mind. Thanks for this new-to-me view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Careful. Your mind is not little, and to swallow the concept of "Akashic records" you have to stretch past breaking

Even if the universe has "memory" at the quantum level (not established), the human mind has a finite number of quanta with which to "read" an immensely larger number of quanta in the universe, multiplied by all past (and supposedly future) states and interactions between quanta.

It's wishful thinking.

[Jim__]

2. From "All the Light We Cannot See"

People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entrance to the maze creek. Marie-Laure imagines the electromagnetic waves traveling into and out of Michel's machine, bending around them, just as Etienne used to describe, except now a thousand times more crisscross the air than when he lived - maybe a million times more. Torrents of text conversations, tides of cell conversations, of television programs, of e-mail, vast networks of fiber and wire interlaced above and beneath the city, passing through buildings, arcing between transmitters in Metro tunnels, between antennas atop buildings, from lampposts with cellular transmitters in them, commercials for Carrefour and Evian and prebaked toaster pastries flashing into space and back again, I'm going to be late and Maybe we ought to get reservations? and Pick up avocados and What did he say? and ten thousand I miss yous, fifty thousand I love yous, hate mail and appointment reminders and market updates, jewelry ads, coffee ads, furniture ads flying invisibly over the warrens of Paris, over the battlefields and tombs, over the Ardennes, over the Rhine, over Belgium and Denmark, over the scarred and ever-shifting landscapes we call nations. And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough? They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.

[GreenWave]

4. And what if it mocks us?

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[erronis]

9. I look forward to reading this book by Anthony Doerrr.

I didn't really expect to get many positive and thoughtful replies to this post - thinking that there would be some expected pooh-poohing. Thanks!

[Jim__]

12. It's a great book!

[Fil1957]

5. I feel sorry for the universe...

[patphil]

6. Is the Universe fundamentally a living thing?

Are we getting close to defining the existence of and consciousness of God?
Is everything just food for thought?
Like in the song from the "Popeye" movie, "Everything is Food", but on the Universal scale.
Does God consume experience as the fundamental food of creation?
Are we God's chefs?

Just a few things to think about.

[retiredwelder]

7. universe

So the universe is a woman ?

[JoseBalow]

10. I've always dismissed the theory that we exist within a simulation

but there are experts far smarter than I that do not.