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To: koan who wrote (455522)	10/18/2020 7:41:44 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 542914

Modern QM is all about fields - particles are really fictions - think of them as knots. Knots in a string are not a "thing" but a configuration of something else. As a cord decomposes - no one actually "unties" the knot - it just stops existing. Information is the same thing - it is coded on a "cord of reality" but IMO (and others, more qualified than me) it has a shelf life because all things in our universe can be perturbed and "rot" or decompose in some way. All of what we know is encoded information in our heads, on our computers, on the wall of the cave, on a page, screen, or disk - and all of it has a shelf-life and a loss of fidelity the longer it exists. Finally it decays to the opposite of what it was and a meaningful "1" becomes a meaningless "0" or vice versa, never in a way that we can figure out.