Footnote Physicist

          “An intelligence that, at a given instance, could comprehend all the forces by which nature is            animated and the respective situation of the beings that make it up, if moreover it were vast            enough to submit these data to analysis, would encompass in the same formula the movements of            the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atoms.  For such an intelligence           nothing would be uncertain, and the future, like the past, would be open to its eyes.”           – Pierre-Simon de Laplace I           “God does not play dice.”           – Albert Einstein II           Determinism  is a facet of  mechanical philosophy  all too oft...

          “Whereas the complexity of an object measures how complicated it is to describe, its information           content measures the extent to which it describes the rest of the world... What I am casually calling           the information content of an object is in technical terms called the mutual information between           the object and the rest of the world.”           – Max Tegmark I           “The rule that dynamical laws must be deterministic and reversible is so central to classical           physics that we sometimes forget to mention it when teaching the subject... what is undoubtedly           the most fundamental of all physical laws— the conservation of information .  The conservation of       ...