Data physics is an branch of the physical sciences dedicated to the study of the raw data that our Universe presents to all living things. The most basic raw data in the universe comes from mass, energy, space, and time. These four elements interract to produce the many different forms of raw data that science has discovered and many forms still undiscovered. Data physics is the meeting point for discovering and understanding data types.

The first foundation of Data Physics is the identification of the 16 fundamental data types that our universe presents to our senses.

To learn about life you must first learn about it's raw data. This page presents a new way of categorizing and understanding the data that all living things process.

Data appears to us and other living things as shape, color, weight, size, sound, taste, etc. Our senses are the detectors of this raw data from our universe and our brain processes the data into knowledge. Life forms are data processors just like computers. A tiny bacterium must process data to identify the difference between foods and wastes. It must also process data to understand when to multiply or when to die. All this data comes to it from the same universe that we all live in and it is important that we understand our universe of data.

Our sensible universe is simply made up of four things; Mass, Energy, Space, and Time (MEST). These are the four things that form the basis of all the raw data that living things can sense. The page uses the abbreviation MEST to indicate this field of raw data that all living things can process.

We all know the MEST intimately within ourselves. When we see a rock we know it has mass and takes up space. When we feel the warmth from a fire we are sensing pure energy. We also know that it takes time to do things. We know these things because we were born into this universe of MEST. Any other knowledge we have about our universe must come from information which is not raw data.

Historically we’ve been told we have just five senses: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching. Right off you should recognize that this is wrong because we are all aware of Timing too. Everything we do must be timed just right or we couldn’t talk or walk as we do. So do we have six senses? We actually have sixteen senses! And how do you get even six senses from the four elements of our MEST universe? Here we need to look closer at the mysterious nature of raw data from MEST.

What is mysterious about raw data is that it comes from the MEST in sixteen different types. The data we get from our universe needs a carrier as a means of transport to our senses. The data carriers for MEST are the same four things that makeup our universe namely mass, energy, space, and time. So when we talk about raw data we are talking about a pairing of two each of the basic elements, one being the data, and the other being the carrier of that data. A single raw data type is designated with an acronym like type SE which means Spatial data is carried by Energy. Type SE data is what we commonly associate with seeing images. Type SE data is ‘coded’ in space (the image) and ‘carried’ by the energy of light. The light is not the image, the image data is conveyed in the way that the light is spread out across the space of the image. The energy of the light is benign to the actual data so the energy acts as a passive carrier.

Let’s look again at type SE data, and have you witness it for yourself. Enter a room you can make completely dark and look at the image of one of the walls. Now turn the light off and the image of the wall goes away. This type SE data has stopped because you have deprived it of its energy carrier (the reflected light). You know in the dark that the wall is still there because you have knowledge of the existence wall as a memory of the wall’s image data. But, with no light energy carrier there can be no type SE data.

Now if you had entered the room for the first time in total darkness you would have had no knowledge of the walls or what was in the room. Turning on a light makes possible the transmission of type SE data from the walls to your eyes. Once you have seen the light your brain can process the spatial image data of the walls and create a knowledge memory of the nature of the room.

So now you know how to witness type SE data and there are only 15 other data types yet to explain. Let’s take type SM data next; here the data is coded in Space and carried in Mass. This data type can be witnessed in a totally dark room. Imagine being in a totally dark room feeling around until you find an object you can pick up. With sensors in your fingers you are able to feel the shape of the object without ever seeing it. The shape you are feeling is spatial data that is carried to your fingers by the mass of the object. By feeling its shape, your brain can now process this type SM data into knowledge about that object in the room.

Physical objects that exist in our universe can exhibit multiple data types simultaneously. If while feeling an objects shape (type SM data) you were to turn on a light and look at the object and see its image in space, then you would be receiving both type SE and SM data from the object at the same time. This goes even further.

Let’s say that the object you picked up was either cold or hot. This is type EM data in that the objects temperature is coded in energy and carried by the mass of the object. An object's temperature can be sensed by our fingertips but what you are sensing is energy not space like you sensed when you sensed the objects SM shape data.

Now let’s examine your sense of time. If the object you picked up was the same temperature as the room you would have no idea how long it had been there in the room. If the object was very cold or very hot (EM data) that would tell you about how long the object had been in the room before you picked it up. This is type TM data; coded in time carried in mass. Your brain functions as your sense of time and time is generally computed from the physical properties of other data types. If it turns out that you recognize the object you picked up in the room as a dinosaur fossil then its shape (SM data) and it appearance (SE data) could be computed by your brain to yield TM data that tells you how old the object might be. Your sense of time comes from four different data types TM, TE, TS, and TT. A Morse code message sent with flashes of light (long dashes, short dots) is type TE data. TS data is your ability to sense the motion of an object, and TT data is simply a date or point in time like May 5, 2004.

Look again at that object we picked up in the darkened room. By picking it up you sense the objects weight, this is type MM data. If this object was very light and weighed only a couple of grams you would immediately know it wasn’t a real dinosaur fossil, it must be a fake plastic copy. Even though the object had the shape and appearance of a fossil it’s weight was wrong so your estimate of its age (time data) must also be wrong.

This is a first example of analyzing data to get at the truth about an object. Sensing just one or two data types from an object is not always enough to find the truth about what the object is. The more data you have about an object the more able you are to properly characterize it within our universe of MEST.

So after this brief introduction to Data Physics, let’s review what is going on and study all sixteen of our senses or data types in a more detail. Let us say your eyes detect the raw data of red light. In and of itself the color red may not mean much but there is a clue in what was just said. The term ‘red light’ demonstrates a pairing of two different components of the universe of MEST. Red is actually a frequency or timing of the light. And, light itself is pure energy. So to get ‘red light’ data you need a paring of the components of time and energy. Data comes to us as a paring of two of the four components of MEST. The raw data of ‘size’ is usually represented as a paring of mass and space. In these parings one component is the ‘carrier’ and the other is the ‘code’ or data. The ‘size’ or spatial displacement of a golf ball is ‘carried’ by the mass of the ball itself. No mass, no size data.

When you see an ordered paring of four things taken two at a time it makes sense that there should be just 16 fundamental data types. The 16 data types can be a bit confusing at first but eventually you should be able to witness most of them in your everyday life.

In order to keep track of the 16 different data types they needed unique names so a two letter acronym format was adopted. The first letter indicates coding element and the second the carrier element. The following text will briefly discuss each individual data type:

1. Type ES data: Coded in Energy carried in Space:

Light is electromagnetic energy that can be understood as a stream of photons. Each photon is considered to have an energy level proportional to its frequency or wavelength. We sense this energy of the photons as type ES color data with the cone receptors of our eyes.

2. Type SE data: Coded in Space carried by Energy:

This type manifests itself as visual images where energy (light) is spread out across one, two, or three dimensional spaces and is sensed by the spatial array of rod and cone sensors in our eyes. If you have the golf ball in a dark room you can see no SE data, but if you turn a light on, and illuminate the ball, the reflected light energy from the ball is type SE data. In this case it took the energy of the light to carry the image of the ball to your eyes.

3. Type SM data: Coded in Space carried by Mass:

This type of data is exhibited by shape or position of material objects. The mass of the object displaces space and you can sense this displacement with your hands. The mass also defines a place in space where the object is located. If you pick up a golf ball in a dark room your hands know where you picked it up at and your fingers can feel the shape and identify the object by its type SM data.

4. Type MS data: Coded in Mass carried in Space:

Type MS data refers to the properties of the actual mass being observed. If two objects have the same shape but one is gold and the other is silver, this fact that the two objects are of different kinds of mass is type MS data. Here the space or size of the object is irrelevant to the nature of the data, space is simply the carrier of the data.

5. Type ME data: Coded in Mass carried in Energy:

The property of a mass being either solid, liquid, or gas depends on its temperature or energy. Different masses have different boiling or freezing points depending on the specific properties of the mass. But, the energy is not the data, the data is the nature of the mass itself and this is type ME data.

6. Type EM data: Coded in Energy carried in Mass:

This data type corresponds to an objects momentum or temperature. If you catch a baseball you can sense its speed by how hard it hits your hand. This is your sense of the kinetic energy of the object and it is irrelevant to what the object is or is made of. Temperature (thermal energy) of an object is also carried in its mass. Our fingers can sense temperature of whatever they touch and here they are detecting type EM data.

7. Type TM data: Coded in Time carried by Mass:

When you hear a sound you are hearing a mass of air molecules pushing on your eardrum over a period of time. The frequency or duration of the air pressure on the eardrum is the type TM data.

8. Type MT data: Coded in Mass carried in Time:

A mass may contain data about events in its past like a fossil contains data about a plant or animal that died in that mass at an earlier time. It takes a trained eye to observe SE data reflected from a mass and sense the presence of type MT data. Since the fossil mass didn’t change with time then time is the carrier of type MT historical data.

9. Type TS data: Coded in Time carried in Space:

This type is sometimes called kinematics and has to do with motion in space over a period of time. A motion picture or video camera records frames of time and the images carry the spatial data. Our brain can also remember the motion of an object and this is it sensing and recording of type TS data.

10. Type ST data: Coded in Space carried in Time:

Type ST data is a still image like a photograph that doesn’t change with time. Most solid inanimate objects exhibit ST data if all they do is hold their shape for a period of time. The shape of the object or image on a photograph is a data record of the moment in time when it was created.

11. Type TE data: Coded in Time carried by Energy:

Your inner ear senses your rate of change of potential energy with respect to time and you use this TE data to keep your balance. If you were to sense Morse Code by either hearing tones or seeing flashes of light the duration in time distinguishes between dots and dashes. This time coding of energy is type TE data.

12. Type ET data: Coded in Energy carried in Time:

This is potential energy that stays constant in time like the lifting of a mass to a higher level or the electrical charge in a battery. We can remember ET data by remembering how much effort it took to lift an object. It is the memory of the data, that is type ET data.

13. Type MM data: Coded in Mass carried in Mass:

In this type you get data about the actual structure of the mass. The nose and tongue are also sensors of type MM data in the form of smell and taste. Both taste and smell come from molecules of actual mass directly touching the sensor which detects this type MM data.

14. Type EE data: Coded in Energy carried in Energy:

The intensity of light is measured as EE data where no distinction as to color, position, or duration is concerned. The rod sensors in the retina of the eye simply detect the total number of photons reaching the receptor. The skin also detects EE data in the form of infra-red or thermal radiation. Electricity is yet another type EE data that can be carried by wires.

15. Type SS data: Coded in Space carried in Space:

This data type covers length, area, and volume measurements. If you use a ruler to measure a length of space this distance is type SS data. By processing type SE data the brain can sense the type SS size data of objects that it views. The hands can also sense type SS size data.

16. Type TT data: Coded in Time carried in Time:

This data type is simply a date or point in time like: September 11, 2001 that does not change with time. The fact that a date doesn’t change over time implies that it is carried in an immortal time carrier. The date may be remembered as type MT (ink on a page) and seen as type SE (reflected light), but the fact that it is remembered in time regardless of its format is the key. The format of a date may change according to the plant or animal that records it but any memory of a point in time is a date of type TT data.

Each of these 16 data types rarely stand alone. When we look with our eyes we see types SE images, ES color, and type TS motion, all at the same time. Our brain needs to understand the different data types because they come from different sensors. To us it’s all summed up in concept of seeing. When we pick up a golf ball we feel types MS, ME, ET even in a dark room. We almost never detect just one type of data at a given time. As we stroll down a street our brain is constantly processing huge amounts of data of many different types. The data all originate from the four elements of our universe: mass, energy, space, and time called MEST. Strolling down the street is strolling through MEST from the perspective of our senses as they input raw data to our brain so it can perform its usual task of data processing.

Eventually Data Physics will contain the mathematical proofs for individual data types and it is expected to include up to 256 more exotic forms of raw data.