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Re:A physicist argues that information is at the root of eve... by Avshalom on Sunday April 25, 2010 @05:00PM (#1293526)
Well it's not really remarkable at all, the argument is basically that information and entropy are mathematically equivalent and so information like entropy spontaneously increases.
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Re:A physicist argues that information is at the root of eve... by frisco on Sunday April 25, 2010 @06:54PM (#1293683)
Information and entropy are absolutely not equivalent; entropy describes the upper bound on information content, but says little about the actual information contained in a coding. The statement that information is spontaeously created isn't based in any physics I know of.
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Re:A physicist argues that information is at the root of eve... by Qz on Sunday April 25, 2010 @08:49PM (#1293839)
How does the (conventional) big bang theory fit into that? At first glance it seems like valid evidence for spontaneous creation of information.
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