Before Columbus could sail to a New World, there had to be a greater knowledge of seas and navigation. When ancient Phoenicians took to seas, they hugged coastline to keep from getting lost at sea. When Vikings took to seas a few centuries before Columbus, they were using primitive (caged ravens to determine proximity to shore), but albeit greater knowledge and technology than Phoenicians.

There were two basic inventions during Renaissance that made Columbus’ journey to New World possible—the magnetic compass and astrolabe (forerunner to modern sextant). Only by knowledge of sun, moon, and stars, with a few simple instruments that measured distance between sun, moon, and stars did Columbus succeed in navigating high seas. Here again, knowledge from above was necessary to move man forward.

Remember importance of stars to wise men from east when Jesus was born? Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 24 about His second return? What did He say would foretell His appearing? He told us sun would turn dark and stars would fall from heavens. That’s interesting. Again, knowledge of stars above will point to soon coming King of Kings.

Now what am I saying? I’m saying that God put stars in sky for a purpose. Yes, they are beautiful, but there is more to them than just their beauty. The Bible declares that all His creation declares His glory. Even stars in sky speak of their Creator. Why can’t man do this? Why does man remain only rebel in God’s creation who refuses to worship and adore his Creator? The Bible says that a man who says in his heart that there is no God is a fool.

There was good reason why three wise men were called wise--they looked above them for guidance and it came to them in form of a star. It just so happened that star they discovered was Christ child. The wisest discovery of all time. (Sources cited are available)

Another, no less crucial, question relates to apparent arbitrariness of selection process. All "parts" of a superposition constitute potential collapse events and, therefore, can, in principle, be measured. Why is only one event measured in any given measurement? How is it "selected" to be collapse event? Why does it retain a privileged status versus measurement apparatus or act?

It seems that preferred states have to do with inexorable process of increase in overall amount of order in Universe. If other states were to have been selected, order would have diminished. The proof is again in pudding: order does increase all time – therefore, measurable collapse events and pointer states tend to increase order. There is a process of negative, order-orientated, selection: collapse events and states which tend to increase entropy are filtered out and statistically "avoided". They are measured less.

There seems to be a guiding principle (that of statistical increase of order in Universe). This guiding principle cannot be communicated to quantum systems with each and every measurement because such communication would have to be superluminal. The only logical conclusion is that all information relevant to decrease of entropy and to increase of order in Universe is stored in each and every part of Universe, no matter how minuscule and how fundamental.

It is safe to assume that, very much like in living organisms, all relevant information regarding preferred (order-favoring) quantum states is stored in a kind of Physical DNA (PDNA). The unfolding of this PDNA takes place in physical world, during interactions between physical systems (one of which is measurement apparatus).

The Biological DNA contains all information about living organism and is replicated trillions of times over, stored in basic units of organism, cell. What reason is there to assume that nature deviated from this (very pragmatic) principle in other realms of existence? Why not repeat this winning design in quarks?

The Biological variant of DNA requires a biochemical context (environment) to translate itself into an organism – an environment made up of amino acids, etc. The PDNA probably also requires some type of context: physical world as revealed through act of measurement.

The information stored in physical particle is structural because order has to do with structure. Very much like a fractal (or a hologram), every particle reflects whole Universe accurately and same laws of nature apply to both. Consider startling similarities between formalisms and laws that pertain to subatomic particles and black holes.

Moreover, distinction between functional (operational) and structural information is superfluous and artificial. There is a magnitude bias here: being creatures of macrocosm, form and function look to us distinct. But if we accept that "function" is merely what we call an increase in order then distinction is cancelled because only way to measure increase in order is structurally. We measure functioning (=the increase in order) using structural methods (the alignment or arrangement of instruments).

Still, information contained in each particle should encompass, at least, relevant (close, non-negligible and non-cancelable) parts of Universe. This is a tremendous amount of data. How is it stored in tiny corpuscles?

Either utilizing methods and processes which we are far even from guessing – or else relevant information is infinitesimally (almost vanishingly) small.

The extent of necessary information contained in each and every physical particle could be somehow linked to (even equal to) number of possible quantum states, to superposition itself, or to collapse event. It may well be that whole Universe can be adequately encompassed in an unbelievably minute, negligibly tiny, amount of data which is incorporated in those quantum supercomputers that today, for lack of better understanding, we call "particles".

Technical Note

Our Universe can be mathematically described as a "matched" or PLL filter whose properties let through collapsed outcomes of wave functions (when measured) - or "signal". The rest of superposition (or other "Universes" in a Multiverse) can be represented as "noise". Our Universe, therefore, enhances signal-to-noise ratio through acts of measurement (a generalization of anthropic principle).

References

Ollivier H., Poulin D. & Zurek W. H. Phys. Rev. Lett., 93. 220401 (2004). Zurek W. H. Arxiv, Preprint http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105127 (2004).