[e2e] a means to an end

David P. Reed dpreed at reed.com
Thu Nov 13 09:06:47 PST 2008


Bekenstein's work is well known.   If anything it says information has 
no place.   The more complex (fractal) the boundary, the more 
information in the space it contains.  That's a real interesting idea, 
but it suggests that the information is not actually in the space at 
all.   It suggests that information *creates* the space that contains 
it, just as in GR, matter/energy creates space.

You are discussing quantum gravity, which conspicuously does not have a 
notion of place, so it is pretty hard to say that information is *in* a 
place.



Lloyd Wood wrote:
> On 13 Nov 2008, at 00:10, David P. Reed wrote:
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>> Sorry, you are wrong.  Physics has no notion of place associated with 
>> information, both in classical physics and in quantum physics.
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> See Bekenstein or the holographic principle.
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>> Lloyd Wood wrote:
>>>>>   * Information is place free.
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>>> Physics disagrees.
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> DTN work: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/saratoga/
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> <http://info.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk>
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