(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?
The problem (and its answer) come from the descriptor "empty". Space turns out not to be so empty, at least in potential.
"Where it is stored" probably doesn't have an answer, at least not as we non-scientist types currently understand it. Personally I'm in the mind-blown, waiting for the picture to come back into focus stage with this.
I of course have no predilection to look for a magic fairy as an answer. To me that would signify that I'd stopped looking for serious answers altogether.
