Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
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The Landauer Principle and the Importance of Information
The fact that information is physical goes back to much older studies from Landauer and Brillouin. A room temperature is about 20 million electron volts, I can tell you, for a bit of information. So the only conclusion I could come up with is that energy condenses into a small mass. This is using Einstein's special relativity and the famous energy equals MC square relation. The three states of matter are fully equivalent and depending on the circumstances they are in, they can manifest as mass energy or pure information.
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