Epistemic note
This project constitutes a deductive structure based on constraints and invariants,
not a philosophical hypothesis nor a physical theory.
Its contents are not evaluable in isolation:
each individual page presupposes the full conceptual structure of the site.
Any judgment formulated without examination of the complete context
is necessarily partial and non-conclusive.
The distinction between structural deduction and interpretation
is an integral part of the model.
In everyday language and in many scientific disciplines, the term information is often identified with a datum, a message, a sequence of symbols, or, in the case of computer science, a string of bits. These definitions are useful in practical and operational contexts, but they do not describe what information is at an ontological level, that is, in relation to the very existence of physical states and the rules that make them possible.
In the model of the Sphere of Everything, information is not treated as an object, a content, or something that “travels”, but as a structural property of admissible states of the universe.
To clarify the concept of information, it is necessary to begin with a preliminary definition.
A state is not an isolated material object, but a possible configuration of a physical system: a particular arrangement of matter, energy, fields, relations, and constraints that does not violate the fundamental rules of existence.
In the language of the Sphere of Everything:
States are therefore not “freely created”: they are selected by a set of deep constraints that do not depend on scale, time, or the observer.
Within this framework, information can be defined precisely:
Information is the measure of how defined and distinguishable a physical state is with respect to other admissible states.
This definition implies several fundamental points:
Two states that are very similar contain little mutual information; two states that are clearly distinct and unambiguously separable contain a large amount of information.
From a physical point of view, speaking about information means speaking about operational distinguishability.
A state is informative insofar as:
This idea is compatible with:
but in the Sphere of Everything it is taken to a deeper level, preceding any mathematical or technological formalism.
The crucial point of the model is that information is not primary.
Prior to information exist the invariant rules of the center of the Sphere:
These rules are not information. They are what makes information possible.
Without rules:
For this reason, in the language of the Sphere, information can be described as:
the operational shadow of invariant rules on the surface of possible states
The Sphere of Everything provides a geometric representation of this concept.
This does not represent a loss or a destruction, but a convergence: when everything that can vary has been eliminated, only what cannot vary remains.
To make the relationship between information, states, and distance from the center of the Sphere intuitive, it is useful to introduce a simple analogy, which does not replace the model but makes it perceptible at an intuitive level.
The Sphere of Everything can be imagined as an onion composed of concentric layers.
This image does not describe the “substance” of reality, but the way in which differences between states change as one moves toward the center.
In the outer layers of the onion:
Each state is easily distinguishable from another: forms, structures, times, relations, and identities are clearly separated.
Moving toward increasingly inner layers:
Not because reality “loses content”, but because the admissible differences become fewer and fewer. What changes is not what exists, but how much can be distinguished.
Approaching the center even further:
At the center of the Sphere, like at the core of an onion:
Not because something is missing, but because there is nothing left to distinguish. Only the invariant rules remain, which are not information, but what makes any information possible in the outer layers.
Each layer of the Sphere represents a different level of possible information, not because reality changes, but because the admissible differences change.
The onion analogy thus makes it immediately clear that information does not fill the Sphere, but naturally emerges from the structure of constraints that select possible states.
In modern physics one often speaks of “information conservation”, particularly in relation to black holes and event horizons.
In the language of the Sphere of Everything, this statement must be interpreted precisely:
What is conserved are the invariant rules that make states possible.
When a physical state loses form, time, and describability (for example, when approaching a regime horizon), the local information associated with that state disappears, but no conservation law is violated, because the fundamental rules remain valid.
In the model of the Sphere of Everything:
These three quantities are not independent. They are three aspects of the same structural constraint.
A highly persistent state:
Approaching regime limits:
In the language of the Sphere of Everything:
What is truly fundamental is not information, but the set of invariant rules that select what can exist.
Information is therefore an emergent property, real and measurable, but always subordinate to the structure that makes it possible.