2017/09/13 by Xiao-Gang Wen · 10 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217979218300104
published in International Journal of Modern Physics B 32(26), 1830010 (World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt) · Contribution to a book "Topological Methods in Theoretical Physics". arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.1281, arXiv:1508.02595
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Newton’s mechanical revolution unifies the motion of planets in the sky and the falling of apples on Earth. Maxwell’s electromagnetic revolution unifies electricity, magnetism, and light. Einstein’s relativistic revolution unifies space with time, and gravity with space–time distortion. The quantum revolution unifies particle with waves, and energy with frequency. Each of those revolution changes our world view. In this article, we will describe a revolution that is happening now: the second quantum revolution which unifies matter/space with information. In other words, the new world view suggests that elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) all originated from quantum information (qubits): they are collective excitations of an entangled qubit ocean that corresponds to our space. The beautiful geometric Yang–Mills gauge theory and the strange Fermi statistics of matter particles now have a common algebraic quantum informational origin.