[js1138]

can you prove there is more information in the universe now than during the big bang? I've never seen any consensus on this among physicists.

[Rachumlakenschlaff]

js1138  wrote:
can you prove there is more information in the universe now than during the big bang? I've never seen any consensus on this among physicists.


I don't know. I took it as self-evident. Does a uniform mixture of simple gases contain the same amount of information as the genetic code of a bacterium? Or even the simplest short story ever written? Actually, the original question I posed dealt with the increase of information between the first living thing and human beings, but somehow it got turned into a discussion of the big bang. I am not aware of any controversy on whether or not the genetic code of human beings contains more information than the simplest of organisms.