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Article #4798Re: Can Information Have Physical Units?
From: John C. Baez
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:12
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:12
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In article <1992Oct6.042539.9893@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> tekman@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Erkan Tekman) writes: >information is indeed unitless, one has for the hamiltonian > > H = H_o + h I > > [etc.] > >i just copied these from J. D. Brasher, Int. J. Theor. Phys. vol 30, 979 >(1991), by the way ;-) I would take anything read in this journal with a large grain of salt; it is famous for highly speculative (and often dubious) stuff. It is the place where my second cousin published his refutation of special relativity. I have never seen a Hamiltonian that contained an "information" term; it might be interesting to consider, but if you want to get an idea of how ordinary physicists think this article is probably the wrong place.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Can Information Have Physical Units? Message-ID: <1992Oct6.171221.25383@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <1992Oct5.153852.12046@asl.dl.nec.com> <12950089@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> <1992Oct6.042539.9893@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 17:12:21 GMT Lines: 18