Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: An Exploration into Information Physics
Autor Tom Stonieren Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 1994
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783540198789
ISBN-10: 3540198784
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: XI, 155 p.
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 1990. 2nd printing
Editura: SPRINGER LONDON
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 3540198784
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: XI, 155 p.
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 1990. 2nd printing
Editura: SPRINGER LONDON
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Public țintă
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Prologue.- The Author’s Dilemma.- 1 Information: Abstraction or Reality?.- Can Information Exist Outside the Human Brain?.- Can Information be Processed Outside the Human Brain?.- Forms of Human Information and its Communication.- Biological Information Systems.- Inorganic Information Systems.- Non-human Information Processing.- Some Epistemological Considerations.- 2 Information Physics: An Introduction.- The Reality of Information.- The Heart of the Concept.- Information: The Hidden Dimension.- 3 Information and Entropy: The Mathematical Relationship.- Information and Organisation.- The Second Law of Thermodynamics.- The Boltzmann/Schrödinger Equation.- Information as an Inverse Exponential Function of Entropy.- The Constant c.- 4 Measuring the Information Changes of Altered Physical States.- Measuring the Information Content of a Crystal.- Proteins as Information Systems.- The Denaturation of Trypsin.- Concluding Remarks.- 5 Information and Entropy: Further Implications.- Information and Entropy as Viewed by the Communications Engineers.- Positive Entropy.- Negative Entropy.- Information Magnitudes.- The Evolution of the Universe.- 6 Some Further Considerations About the Interrelationship Between Information and Energy.- Pure Energy: Heat, the Antithesis of Information.- The Information Content of Energy.- Motion, Distance and Time.- Information and Potential Energy.- The Interconversion of Energy and Information.- Information Machines.- Structural vs Kinetic Information.- Transformations Between Kinetic and Structural Information.- 7 Information and Work.- The Relationship Between Work and Information.- Energy Transducers.- Work in Biological Systems.- Reassessing the Work Equations.- Measuring the Information Content of Electrical Work.- 8 Summary and ConcludingRemarks.- The Basic Propositions.- Historical Perspective.- Why Has Information Been Overlooked?.- The Need for Models and Theories.- The Relevance of Information Physics for a General Theory of Information.- Some Concluding Thoughts.- Appendixes.- A. Speculations on Electromagnetic Radiation and Particles of Information.- B. Further Speculations: Implications for Atomic Structure.- C. A Smaller Universe.- D. Other Universes?.