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I didn’t say all valid ideas must be intuitive, but that if an idea is not intuitive then we should have some other reason to believe it is worth investigating.

• foxyv 3y ago
  A few reasons to consider something for study is either existing empirical evidence or internal consistency of a theory. The reason information conservation and energy/mass/information equivalence are interesting is because there is a possibility for such consistency in a few theories. Physicists are always looking for equivalences and conserved quantities. They are the basis for modern physics. It's how we discovered that 3 of the 4 known forces were all based on the same equivalent principle. You find a conserved quantity that unifies the two forces. Possibly one of the greatest feats of this was Maxwell when he unified electrical and magnetic forces by discovering an equivalence between the two that allowed energy to be conserved. This helped us to discover the underlying principles of light itself and describe it as an electromagnetic wave. Information conservation could prove to unify gravity with the remaining forces. Or not! Or it could break them all apart again. That's just what scientific inquiry is all about.