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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> > What about the four fundamental interactions? Are they energy, or are
> > they some property of the Universe distinct from energy?
> They're energy in the sense that they're mass in the sense that they're
> mediated by particles (assuming one finds gravitons, at least). The electric
> force is photons interacting with electrons, for example, both of which are
> energy.
Isn't that like saying "sound is matter"? Sound is transported by matter,
sound isn't matter in itself. Sound is a phenomenon.
Likewise just because the fundamental forces are mediated by energy
doesn't necessarily mean that the forces are energy.
I'm not saying the fundamental forces are not a form of energy, I'm simply
wondering if they are (because I'm not a phycisist and I don't know).
> > (Another point which would indicate that information is not
> > energy is that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but information can.)
> Actually, there's good reason to think information cannot be destroyed.
> That's what lead to postulating the holographic principle and hawking
> radiation. The basic problem is that the QM theories preserve certain kinds
> of information that GR does not, so matter falling into a black hole
> violates quantum mechanics in a very fundamental way.
I think in physics "information" is defined in terms of entropy, and as
we know, entropy varies.
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- Warp
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