Find out how our understanding of the nature of reality has changed radically over the past 25 years. Leonard talks to physicist Frank Wilczek, author of Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces.
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Loved the show(with physicist Frank Wilczek), and had a Question to Mr. Wilczek. I'd appreciate it if you can forward it to him and address it in your future shows:
Time and Information, the new interchangeable frontier.
Just as Mass and Energy (M%E) are interchangeable, and so are, in my mind, Time and Information (T&I).
That means that a piece of mass, before it is changing it's place, momentum, velocity and other atributes, it contains all the INFORMATION that later on will be released into it's experience in TIME. and in return, once you find a piece of mass in motion, or at any place it rests AFTER it stopped it;s time experience, it will contain all the information of it's past (It is useful in the theory of the perservation of mass & energy in the universe bucontended in the long battle between Hackins and Ginzburg).
So in essence, one can argue that before the Big Bang, the giant mass of the universe contained ALL the INFORMATION that was later to be released into TIME. And possibly, at the end of TIME (What is that?), the whole universe might end up motionless and contain ALL the INFORMATION of it's past.
Is there any mathematics to incorporate such?
Well, these are abstract matters and the conversation sounds inevitably agreeable, but is it expressed in quantitive science?
THanks
Soli Foger
Englewood, NJ
theizzy@verizon.net
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