Is There a Difference Between North and South?

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Seth Holowenko: Can you think of any meaningful differences that might exist in science and society if we decided tomorrow that the north was actually down rather than up? Chris Murray says, how do you reconcile the Beckenstein bound with the fact that even a single real number requires an infinite amount of information to describe? Our world seems to have real numbers all over the place.

Welcome to the September 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patrons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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