The entire three-dimensional vacuum of space might have grown from a single pair of entangled particles.
Physicists have long searched for the seed of the universe's structure. This theory proposes that the Big Bang and the fabric of spacetime itself originated from one Bell pair through a quantum error-correcting code. It models the vacuum as a crystal-like lattice that emerges from this simple unit of entanglement. This reduces all of physical reality to the most basic possible unit of quantum information. It suggests that the code of the universe is designed to be self-healing and incredibly resilient.
The Quantum Error-Correcting Origin of Spacetime: Reverse-Engineering the FCC Vacuum to a Single Bell Pair
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The Mass-Energy-Information (M/E/I) equivalence of Part I establishes that particle masses are fault-tolerant verification costs in a [[192,130,3]] CSS quantum error-correcting code on the Face-Centred Cubic (FCC) lattice. This paper reverse-engineers that result to its minimal initial condition.We ask: what is the simplest quantum state that, under the internal consistency requirements of the CSS code, necessarily gives rise to the FCC vacuum?The answer is a single Bell pair — the beginning of