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The Physical Foundation of Information and the Unification of Physics

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It is introduced that order coordinate is the physical foundation of information and suggested that the order-space-time becomes a new unified framework of physics.

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This chapter is integrated and revised by merging two published papers: (1) Ye, F. Y. 2004. On the physical foundation of information and the unification of fields. http://www.paper.edu.cn; (2) Ye, F. Y. 2009. From chaos to unification: U theory vs. M theory. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 42(1): 89–93

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Ye, F.Y. (2017). The Physical Foundation of Information and the Unification of Physics. In: Scientific Metrics: Towards Analytical and Quantitative Sciences. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5936-0_6

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