Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-15 17:04:27 UTC
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@scribus For a given energy in a given volume, there is an upper limit to the density of information (the Bekenstein bound) about the whereabouts of all the particles which compose matter in that volume, suggesting that matter itself cannot be subdivided infinitely many times and there must be an ultimate level of fundamental particles, which Claude Shannon (Of "Shannon Entropy" fame posits to functionally be 1 bit. The holographic principle goes on to say that the entropy of ordinary matter is proportionate to its surface area, not its volume, because volume isn't real because the third dimension is an emergent phenomenon that doesn't functionally exist at quantum scales.
