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INFORMATION PHYSICS

INFORMATION AS A PROJECTION OF THE SUBSTRATE

Autor: Boris Kriger
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Independently published
Disponibilitate: Așteptăm intrarea în stoc
Ediția 05. 06. 2026
116.49 lei
For a century we have been told two contradictory things about information. The first is that the un...

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Autor
Boris Kriger
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2026
Pagini
236
EAN
9798199360159
Enbook ID
52750333
Editura
Independently published
Greutate
323
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 13

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For a century we have been told two contradictory things about information. The first is that the universe is secretly made of it - that beneath the atoms there are only bits, that reality is at bottom a kind of code. The second is that "information physics" is fashionable hand-waving, a buzzword dressed up as a discipline. Both verdicts miss what is actually the case, and the truth is stranger and simpler than either.
Information is not a substance the world is built from. It is the name we give to one undeniable fact: that the world is differentiated - shot through with differences rather than blank, silent sameness. Every famous way of measuring information - the bits that travel down a wire, the length of the shortest description, the entropy of a warm room, the heat released when a memory is erased, the meaning a signal carries to whoever is listening - turns out to be a faithful shadow of that single fact, cast from a different angle.
This book is the plain-language case for information physics done honestly. There are no equations and no mysticism, and nothing here is debunked. Instead, every idea is built from the ground up with everyday things - a coin, a deck of cards, a cooling cup of tea, the snow on an old television - so that a reader who long ago forgot the contents of a schoolbook will never once feel lost. By the end you will see why the universe need not be a computer, why the question of whether we live in a simulation is the wrong question, why time runs only forward, and why no instrument, however perfect, can ever measure everything. All of it follows from a single clear idea, and that idea, once you have it, you will never misplace again.

Information physics; entropy; information theory; complexity; thermodynamics; cosmology; reality