Infomatics

Mathematics of Information-as-Fundamental | Status: ACTIVE (Phase 0) Protocol: research v2.4 | GitHub: rwnq8/infomatics

Overview

Infomatics is a research program investigating the mathematical structure of information as the fundamental substrate of physical reality. Rather than treating information as derivative from matter, energy, or computation, Infomatics asks: what if information is fundamental — and matter, energy, space, and time are emergent from its structure?

Core Thesis

Information is not a description of reality — information IS reality. Physical systems are particular realizations of more fundamental information-theoretic structures. The laws of physics are constraints on information flow, not descriptions of independently-existing matter.

Connections to QNFO Ecosystem

Project	Relationship
Ultrametric Physics	Ultrametric geometry is the natural topology for information hierarchies
The Informational Universe	Companion project — Infomatics provides the mathematical framework
CFPE Paradigm Forecast	Information-theoretic constraints on paradigm shift probabilities
Quantum Laws of Form	Boundaries and distinctions as primitive information operations
Radix-UWB Synthesis	p-adic valuation as information-distance metric

Key Research Questions

1. RQ-1: What is the minimal set of information-theoretic primitives sufficient to derive physical law?
2. RQ-2: How does ultrametric (p-adic) geometry emerge from information-hierarchical constraints?
3. RQ-3: Can the Standard Model coupling constants be derived from information-theoretic optimization principles?
4. RQ-4: What is the relationship between information entropy and geometric curvature?
5. RQ-5: How does the arrow of time emerge from information-theoretic irreversibility?

Project Structure

infomatics/
├── README.md
├── PROJECT-PLAN.md
├── RISK-REGISTER.md
├── DELIVERABLE-REGISTRY.md
├── .gitignore
├── docs/            # Source documents, prior work
├── artifacts/       # Phase deliverables
├── notebooks/       # Working notes
└── releases/        # Versioned bundles

License

QNFO Unified License Agreement (QNFO-ULA v2.0): https://legal.qnfo.org/

Protocol Compliance (research v2.4)

Item	Status	Evidence
PROJECT-PLAN.md	✅	v0.1 created 2026-07-19
RISK-REGISTER.md	✅	7 risks identified
DELIVERABLE-REGISTRY.md	✅	Phase 0 deliverables tracked
.gitignore	✅	Python/OS/IDE/temp patterns
Pre-Flight P1-P10	✅	All HARD gates pass
Feature Branch	✅	feature/project-init-phase0
Version Tag	✅	v0.1-phase0
KG Node	✅	Updated with protocol status
R2 Archive	⏳	Pending Phase 0 closeout
Zenodo DOI	⏳	Pending Phase 5 (Publication)

Created: 2026-07-19 | Protocol: research v2.4

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Consolidation (2026-08-04)

This repository is the program home for infomatics. The content above is the original base repository (infomatics). The following project repos were merged in via git subtree (history preserved):

Project repo	Subdirectory
infomatics-v2	infomatics-v2/
informational-universe	informational-universe/
qnfo-photon-audit	qnfo-photon-audit/

See PROVENANCE.md for the full mapping.