Viewing the Universe through the Lens of Information

Physics has had many successes. However, it has been unable to answer many of the most basic questions about the universe using information. For example, what force causes a photon to travel through space at the speed of light? What causes that force? How large is that force? How can a photon carry electromagnetic charge when it has no charge? Why are energy and matter quantized? What causes the quantization of energy and matter? What causes like charges to repel and opposite charges to attract? What is time and what causes it? Why does energy exist? What is the first cause of energy? What created the Big Bang? What came before the Big Bang? What created space? What created the dimensions of space? What causes symmetry? Why is symmetry so prevalent in the universe? What ensures the consistency of the Universe? How could an information-based representation ensure the global consistency of existence, given all the different domains of discourse, representations, ontologies, and ontological consistency rules it would seem to require? The fact that we have been unable to answer these most basic questions is a sure sign that we are missing something very fundamental. It is as if we have been trying to analyze and understand the entire universe by looking through the lenses of millions of microscopes, each viewing the universe in a limited spectrum and each having a limited, isolated field of view, each described using its own specialized symbols, models, and languages. Looking thru the incomplete, domain limited lens of information, we cannot see or reach all the squares on the chessboard of reality because the physical representation of the universe itself is not based on information. Information only provides an incomplete, partial representation of reality. We need to go beyond the limitations and constraints of information if we want to understand Physics completely. We need to be able to model and represent all of reality as a complete, consistent, integrated whole in all of its context dependent splendor using a single complete and consistent representation that is isomorphic to the full representation of existence. The same is true of all physical sciences.