On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:18 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > there was no one around in the big bang that we know of, yet it would > appear any maths that might be involved in physical processes managed to > work OK. >
Yes, but to math make the Big Bang or did the Big Bang make the math? I don't know and I'm not going to pretend that I do. > By the way, what is the "recent discovery that information is physical"? > 1961 is pretty recent and in that year Landauer discovered that the absolute minimum energy it takes to erase one bit of information is ln(2)kT , k is Boltzmann's constant 1.381 X10^-23 J/K, and T is the temperature of the computer in degrees Kelvin. In 1972 Bekenstein discovered that the maximum amount of information you can put inside a sphere is proportional not to it's volume as you might expect but to it's surface area, and it's 2PI*R*E/h*c*ln2 where R is the radius of the sphere, E is the mass-energy inside the sphere h is Planck's constant and c is the speed of light. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
