Is Information Physically Real..?

[AV1611VET]

Is information physically real?

No.

If you download some information on to a blank disk, then weigh that disk, there will be no change in its weight.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

No.

If you download some information on to a blank disk, then weigh that disk, there will be no change in its weight.

but if you map the physical domains of the various iron molecules in the disk or the reflectivity of various portions of the disk for example, there will be physical differences from the disks original state. who said information has mass?

 

[AV1611VET]

but if you map the physical domains of the various iron molecules in the disk or the reflectivity of various portions of the disk for example, there will be physical differences from the disks original state.

What's this have to do with its weight?

I can park my car, pointed in any one of four different directions; that doesn't mean I've added mass to my car.

who said information has mass?

Not I!

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

What's this have to do with its weight?

I can park my car, pointed in any one of four different directions; that doesn't mean I've added mass to my car.Not I!

you were the one who downloaded information and then weighed the disk.

 

[PhantomGaze]

Apparently some argue that information is literally physically real.