Alexandre Harvey Tremblay

We present a reformulation of fundamental physics from an enumeration of axiomatic primitives to the solution of an entropy optimization problem. By maximizing the Shannon entropy of all possible measurements relative to a system's initial state, we find that physics itself emerges as the least biased description consistent with what can be measured. Remarkably, the solution automatically yields a complete unified theory, naturally incorporating quantum mechanics, general relativity (via a double-copy mechanism applied to the Dirac current), and the Standard Model gauge symmetries (SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)) without additional assumptions. Mathematical consistency requirements further restrict valid solutions to 3+1 dimensions, potentially explaining the observed dimensionality of spacetime. This reformulation provides a parsimonious foundation where previously independent phenomena arise as different aspects of a single solution.

In the RNA World hypothesis, it is generally assumed that self-replicating RNA emerged from a primordial soup of amino acids approximately 500 million years before the advent of life on Earth. Recently, prebiotic molecules such as glycolaldehyde and amino acetonitrile have been discovered in abundance in nebulae like Sagittarius B2. This paper proposes that icy grains within these nebulae could act as primordial soups and explores the implications of this hypothesis. It is argued that the sheer abundance of these grains in a typical nebula makes their collective volume astronomically greater than Earth’s primitive oceans, thus favouring the likelihood of an RNA self-replicator emerging within this environment based on volume arguments. The likelihood of naturally producing the first self-replicator may be significantly lower than previously envisioned, necessitating the contribution of a larger primordial soup spread across a nebula and functioning for billions of years before the emergence of life on Earth. According to this model, Earth could have been seeded by panspermia following the emergence of a self-replicator on nearby icy interstellar dust. Finally, we discuss the Fermi paradox in the context of this model.