On Feb 6, 4:55 pm, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Informational laws and physical laws are, in my mind, closely > related. Laws related to information seem to supercede physical law. > For example, the impossibility of encoding information in fewer > symbols or trying to send more over a channel in a given time period, > than allowed.
Those transcend physics inasmuch as they are mathematical . > There is also a "conservation" of information. It is > apparently industrictable. Is there? if there is , it is a phsycial law, and AFAIK it is hotly debated. > There is a minimum physical energy > expenditure associate with irreversible computation. E.g. Setting a > memory register from 1 to 0. Other "informational laws", prevent any > compression algorithm from having any net decrease in size when > considered over the set of all possible inputs. You can also do > really cool things with information, such as forward error correction: > a file of size 1 mb can be encoded to 1.5 mb. Then this encoded file > can be split into 15 equally sized pieces. The cool part is that any > 10 of these pieces (corresponding to 1 mb of information) may be used > to recover the entire original file. Any less than 1 mb worth of > pieces is insufficient. > > Jason You "information laws" seem to have mixed origins. > > On Feb 5, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:56:10PM +0100, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > >> First, we have not to forget the Third Law that states that the > >> change in entropy in any reaction, as well its derivatives, goes to > >> zero as the temperatures goes to zero Kelvin. > > >> In this respect your question is actually nice, as now, I believe, > >> we see that it is possible to have a case when the information > >> capacity will be more than the number of physical states. > > >> Evgenii > > > How so? > > > -- > > > --- > > --- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > > Principal, High Performance Coders > > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > --- > > --- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Everything List" group. > > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > . > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en > > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
