Reality Is A Decompressing Zip File
Reality may be fundamentally informational, with entropy emerging not from information loss or disorder, but from the progressive relaxation of informational constraints. The early universe—despite being hot and dense—occupied a highly constrained, low-gravitational-entropy state, analogous to a maximally compressed informational configuration. As the universe expands, the available phase space grows, correlations spread, horizons form, and information becomes increasingly delocalized and accessible at finer resolution. Entropy rises not because information is created, but because the same conserved information can be realized in vastly more distinguishable configurations. In this framework, cosmic expansion does not cause entropy in general, but in our universe it plays a central role in enabling the unfolding of structure and complexity. Time itself can be interpreted as an emergent ordering parameter associated with this informational differentiation, consistent with a de...
