Information — The Shadow of What Never Was ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Information Is Not Physical: Possibility Spaces, Erasure, and the Structure of Unrealized Alternatives"
Physicists have proposed a new view: information is not a substance, but the shadow of all possible events.
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Every time you forget something, you’re not just losing a thought—you’re turning it into heat. Scientists call this the 'physicality of information.' But what if information isn’t a substance, but all the unrealized versions of events? This view helps tackle the biggest mystery of black holes: where does everything that falls into them go?
🎯 Erasing a single bit heats the environment by 10^-23 degrees. Over a year, all the data centers on Earth collectively release exactly as much heat from this as is needed to boil just one chicken egg.