You might read this 1988 Atlantic Monthly article about ed fredkin’s view on the universe and information.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/88apr/wright.htm
We have to go further than that: Information stands above matter and energy; it came before either of them, and it will still exist when they both have passed.
2Pe 3:10 - "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."