Year: 2022

PLATO’S CAVE. “Related results suggest that our universe, which we perceive to have three spatial dimensions, might instead be written on a two-dimensional surface, like a hologram.” Reality as shadows on a cave wall. https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

ILLUSION OR ALTERNATIVE TRUTH. “Our everyday perceptions of the world as three-dimensional would then be either a profound illusion or merely one of two alternative ways of viewing reality. A grain of sand may not encompass our world, but a flat screen might.” Or a cave wall. https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

“FORMAL INFORMATION theory originated in seminal 1948 papers by American applied mathematician Claude E. Shannon, who introduced today's most widely used measure of information content: entropy.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE WRITTEN ON SUBWAY WALLS. “Time is the physical (can't think of a better word) manifestation of entropy, the distribution of possible configurations of a closed system. Matter is not space, it just sits inside of it. Net entropy is always increasing, and applies to antimatter as well as matter.” https://lnkd.in/d849xrv View in LinkedIn

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“ENTROPY had long been a central concept of thermodynamics, the branch of physics dealing with heat.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

CHAOS. “Thermodynamic entropy is popularly described as the disorder in a physical system.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

ENTROPY STATES. “In 1877 Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann characterized it more precisely in terms of the number of distinct microscopic states that the particles composing a chunk of matter could be in while still looking like the same macroscopic chunk of matter.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENT IDEAS. “When Shannon cast about for a way to quantify the information contained in, say, a message, he was led by logic to a formula with the same form as Boltzmann's.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

FROM IT TO BIT. “The Shannon entropy of a message is the number of binary digits, or bits, needed to encode it. Shannon entropy does not enlighten us about the value of information, which is highly dependent on context. Yet as an objective measure of quantity of information, it has been enormously useful in science and technology.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn