Conservation of information: Quantum mechanics and RIS

Basic concepts in probability and information theory have been used to examine some longstanding problem in quantum physics. In particular, a new concept called the conservation of information appears to offer insight into laser interferometer experiments done at the University of Rochester and at the University of California at Berkeley. These interferometer experiments demonstrate that information controls quantum interference and presumably the wave function. New “gedanken” experiments proposed here deal explicitly with the collapse of the quantum mechanical wave function by information alone. Use would be made of laser fluorescence and resonance ionization spectroscopy to explore more fully the control of the wave function with information; as well as the temporal relationship of information generated locally with information in a distant system. If one assumes the conservation of information at all time and in any reference frame, teleportation of atoms emerges as a natural consequence.