A New Cosmogony

Edward Fredkin

Department of Physics
Boston University
Boston, MA, 02215, USA

Abstract

Digital Mechanics is a model of physics based on the Finite Nature assumption; that at some scale, space and time and all other quantities of physics are discrete. In this paper we will assume that Finite Nature is true and we will explore the consequences with regard to the nature and origin of the Universe. Contemporary physics has a lot to say about models of the early universe; down to the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Digital Mechanics can tell us something about what might have occurred before the Big Bang. We show that any reasonable estimate for the unit of length leads to a puzzle; the computational capacity of space dwarfs any reasonable requirement for what we know about physics. This paper will attempt to lead the reader down a connected path of consequences that all follow from the single assumption; Finite Nature.