Ants And Cosmology

My concept of the "Lowest Information Point", December 2017, also applies to living things. 

We know that the universe always seeks the lowest energy state. This is why an object in the air will fall to the ground, it requires less energy than holding it in the air. My theory of how information works has energy and information as really the same thing. We can see that energy and information is really the same thing in how we cannot add information to anything without applying energy to it and we cannot apply energy to anything without adding information to it.

Another way we can see that energy and information is really the same thing is how we can make our lives physically easier by technology, but only at the expense of making them more complex. We can never, on a large scale, make our lives physically easier and also less complex.

One way that the universe seeks the Lowest Information Point can be illustrated by related ratios. Consider the following two equations. A/B = C/D and A/B = B/C. The second equation contains less information because it contains only three points of information, while the first contains four. The reason for this is that, in the second equation, the denominator of the first ratio is also the numerator of the second.

In my cosmology theory everything in the universe, both space and matter, are composed of nearly-infinitesimal negative and positive electric charges. This is why Planck's Length shows up in so many physics formula. It is the length of one of these electric charges.

This must mean that the scale halfway between the scale of one of these electric charges and the scale of the entire universe must be a favored scale in the theory of the "Lowest Information Point", based on this concept of related ratios.

I had long wondered why so much of the solid matter in the universe is in the form of dust. It seemed as if dust is in some kind of favored position. According to the Lowest Information Point indeed it is. The average scale of a typical mote of dust is about halfway between the nearly-infinitesimal scale of the fundamental electric charges and the nearly-infinite scale of the entire universe.

I soon realized that this also explains why metals exist, as opposed to non-metals. Most of the elements of the Periodic Table are metals. In a metal, a large group of atoms share their outermost electrons. This gives metals different physical properties from non-metals. A group of atoms that share their outermost electrons is known as a crystal. The simple explanation for metals is that the typical scale of a crystal, like a mote of dust, is a favored position because it is about halfway between the nearly-infinitesimal scale of the electric charges and the nearly-infinite scale of the entire universe.

When it comes to living things, the Theory of Evolution never made a lot of sense to me. I was interested in science long before religion and I thought that there must be more to this in explaining life on earth. I won't go into detail here but I described it in the blog "God Must Have Created Us".

One living thing that really stands out as stars of the race to be the "survival of the fittest" is ants. Countless other species have come and gone but ants remain. I see little doubt that ants are the most successful creatures on earth over the long-term.

But what is it that makes ants so successful? Could it be that ants have something going for them beyond earth? What if ants have the whole universe going for them? Notice that the average scale of ants is about the same as for dust, this puts them in a favored position. Just as the universe has a bias toward dust, the earth has a bias toward ants. Image from the Wikipedia article "Ant".