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Re:A physicist argues that information is at the root of eve... by albertzeyer on Sunday April 25, 2010 @05:49PM (#1293592)
He does not define information. He relates to the general accepted definition of information by Shannon. There is a whole research field on this area, called information theory.

The base of this definition of information has nothing to do with time. It is rather a mathematical measurement for entropy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

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