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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

“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

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

THERMODYNAMIC VS INFO. “This discrepancy occurs because the entropies are computed for different degrees of freedom. A degree of freedom is any quantity that can vary, such as a coordinate specifying a particle's location or one component of its velocity.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

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

SHANNON VS BOLTZMANN. “Even when reduced to common units, however, typical values of the two entropies differ vastly in magnitude. A silicon microchip carrying a gigabyte of data, for instance, has a Shannon entropy of about 10(10) bits (one byte is eight bits), tremendously smaller than the chip's thermodynamic entropy, which is about 10(23) bits at room temperature.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

LIMITS OF INFO. “By studying the mysterious properties of black holes, physicists have deduced absolute limits on how much information a region of space or a quantity of matter and energy can hold.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

SHANNON VS BOLTZMANN. “The two entropies have two salient differences, though. First, the thermodynamic entropy used by a chemist or a refrigeration engineer is expressed in units of energy divided by temperature, whereas the Shannon entropy used by a communications engineer is in bits, essentially dimensionless. That difference is merely a matter of convention.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

THE NOGGINS HAVE IT. “Remarkably, recent developments in theoretical physics answer some of these questions, and the answers might be important clues to the ultimate theory of reality.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

ENTROPY AND INFO. “Thermodynamic entropy and Shannon entropy are conceptually equivalent: the number of arrangements that are counted by Boltzmann entropy reflects the amount of Shannon information one would need to implement any particular arrangement.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn