Document Type : Regular article

Author

• Olivier Denis

Information Physics Institute, Gosport, Hampshire United Kingdom

Abstract

The Holographic Computational Universe (HCU) introduces a fundamental paradigm shift in physics by asserting that time, spacetime, gravity, and matter emerge from the quantized and conserved transduction of bulk entropy into boundary information through the Holographic Thermodynamic Cycle (HTC). This cyclic eight-phase renewal mechanism maintains global informational balance and drives the universe’s continual self-updating. In this framework, space is not an absolute background but a relational structure: a dynamic network of Rindler–Compton (RC) cells, each encoding one nat of information per HTC. Time is not an external parameter but a computational variable, arising from the ordered succession of Quantum Informational Ticks (QITs), the minimal holographic computations that refresh boundary surfaces. Entropy quantifies the evolving informational phase space and increases because the universe persistently computes and records its own structure. Gravity is the thermodynamic response to informational disequilibrium, manifesting as curvature generated by entropy gradients across the holographic boundary. By unifying relativity, quantum mechanics, holography, thermodynamics, and information theory into a single physical computational framework, HCU reconceives the universe as a non-formal, non-algorithmic system whose evolution is governed by irreversible informational transduction rather than symbolic computation. The HCU offers a coherent and experimentally testable paradigm that simultaneously addresses quantum gravity, grounds the Second Law of Thermodynamics, explains temporal irreversibility, and defines universe itself as an autonomous, non-algorithmic, informational, holographic computational self-learning system.

Keywords

• Holography
• Gravity
• Spacetime
• Entropy
• Information
• Computation

Main Subjects

• Physics