RE: Where is the information stored?
January 19, 2015 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2015 at 11:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 19, 2015 at 3:51 am)Heywood Wrote: Imagine completely empty space. Now in that space place two electrons. Smash those electrons together hard enough and you get a shower of other particles....including protons. This suggests the information necessary to construct a proton is contained in the electron. Continue to smash particles together and conceivably you can have an entire universe....just like ours. Does the information necessary to construct a universe just like our exists in just two electrons? If it doesn't where does this information exist?
Is there some reason to separate the electrons in your example from the information. Is the question asked even sensible? Perhaps the "information" isn't -contained within- electrons or anywhere else, but that electrons -are- the information, in the sense the question is proposing information as regards electrons? That's certainly how a computer works, for example. The energy that operates the gate doesn't contain the information, it -is- the information, from a mechanical point of view. The information itself is just a description of the current state of a large number of physical objects and their various interactions (which modify the behavior of applied energy), translated into a language suitable for human comprehension.
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