Information source

What I Mean by “Information”

In this project, “information” is not a buzzword. I treat it as a structured state that can, in principle, be encoded, transmitted and reconstructed. Formally, I think of information as a normalized state in an abstract state space (a Hilbert-like space), and what we call “reality” as a projection of these states into physical space.

In simple terms: there is a space of possible states, and there is a way these states become “visible” to us as matter, fields and measurements.

Real Space vs Complex Space

Most physical measurements live in the real numbers: a voltage, a magnetic field reading, a frequency. But waves, interference and phase are naturally described in the complex plane ℂ, where every state has a magnitude and a phase.

My working assumption is:

– what we observe lives in ℝ (real space),

– but the full dynamics lives in ℂ (complex space),

– and measurement is a projection from ℂ to ℝ.

The “imaginary” part is not mystical. It simply encodes what cannot be seen directly in a single reading: hidden phase, correlations, and the structure that only appears when you look across many cycles or many events.

Phase as the Core of Change

Instead of treating phase as a cosmetic parameter of a wave, I treat it as primary. A phase change is a change of state. When a system passes through a special configuration (a node, or zero point), phase can flip, and the way energy propagates can change direction or channel.

In this view:

– a “process” is a continuous evolution of phase in complex space,

– a “measurement” is a discrete sample of that process on the real axis,

– what we call “now” is already an artefact – the process itself is always ahead of what we can write down.

Information, Induction and Resonance

When two systems interact, I describe it as inductive coupling of phase structures. Information is not a separate substance; it is the pattern in the way phases align, cancel, reinforce or shift.

Resonance is the special case where:

– the internal phase structure of a system matches the external field,

– small inputs can produce large, coherent responses,

– the system effectively “locks” to a phase pattern.

This is the bridge I use later between:

– information as abstract state,

– fields and waves in physical space,

– and the emergence of stable structures like electrons and dipoles.