From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 10:49:46 MST
Scerir forwards from
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/26/science/26COSM.html
> Reality is quantized, he argued, because it is
> in some sense made of information. Paraphrasing
> Neils Bohr, the Danish physicist, Dr. Zeilinger
> said quantum theory was about what could be known
> about nature. And information comes in bits,
> irreducible yes-no, on-off, decisions.
>
> That is to say, information is quantized.
Actually, information is not quantized. Anyone who has studied
information theory is very familiar with fractions of a bit. Rolling a
6-sided die gives you 2.585... bits.
Hal
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