Posted: Jun 08, 2014 7:23 am
Bob@RealScienceRadio wrote:
Hello theropod. Consider this way of understanding that information is not physical. (There are a hundred ways to understand this.) We (human beings) can accelerate some bits of subatomic particles to significant fractions of the speed of light, but we can't accelerate anything to light speed (in a vacuum). However, we can transmit gigabytes of data, entire novels, in a millisecond, at the speed of light. That is a rudimentary way of showing that information is not physical.
That's ridiculous. Practically insanely so.
Is that even true?
Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
Do you actually think we can move pure information? That is something immaterial, without any physical aspects at all?!
Bob@RealScienceRadio wrote:The ink on the pages in your books theropod represent the information that those books contain; but the ink itself is *not* the information itself. The information encoded on a DNA molecule has nothing to do with the chemistry of the nucleotides, just as the plot of a novel is fully independent of the chemistry of the ink, the electrons in the Kindle, the sound waves in the air, etc.
You are just playing an equivocation game with the word "information". Tiresome.