(January 19, 2015 at 3:51 am)Heywood Wrote: Imagine completely empty space. Now in that space place two electrons. Smash those electrons together hard enough and you get a shower of other particles....including protons. This suggests the information necessary to construct a proton is contained in the electron. Continue to smash particles together and conceivably you can have an entire universe....just like ours. Does the information necessary to construct a universe just like our exists in just two electrons? If it doesn't where does this information exist?
What?
Where do you get the idea that by smashing two electrons together, you will end up with more matter and more energy? You'll get two electrons' worth of subatomic particles.
Your concept is like saying "smash two cars together and you'll get a shower of car particles, everything you need to build a car. Continue to smash the car parts together and conceivably you can have an entire auto-assembly-line, showroom, and a huge lot full of all makes and models of car."
You're not making a lot of sense.
And yes, "where is the information stored" is a puzzle that's currently being worked on. But the answer doesn't include magical multiplication of mass and energy simply by smashing things together.
(there is, of course, the outside energy needed for the smashing, but in you scenario that's arrived at magically as well. Who or what is doing the smashing, if there are only two electrons to begin with?)
