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Penisanthonydoubs t1_iwr3x7k wrote

Reply to comment by Chimalez in Dark matter may be information itself by newsphilosophy

>information bits have no charge or spin

What are information bits, how do you know they're real, and how do you know their properties?

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Chimalez t1_iwr4zd2 wrote

Everything I said was relative to the article. An information bit in this case would be any structure on the atomic or even quantum level that contains enough of a pattern to be capable of functioning as information storage (sort of like how computers are made up of logic gates of ones and zeroes, an information bit would be capable of projecting some form of coherent data.)

That's my best attempt at explaining it, please correct me if I am wrong.

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Penisanthonydoubs t1_iwr8s2s wrote

>That's my best attempt at explaining it, please correct me if I am wrong.

How could I, you're citing conjecture, it's unfalsifiable

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dern_the_hermit t1_iwrrptm wrote

> How could I

By knowing more about the various views on information in the scientific/mathematical discourse. There's been a lot of discussion and work on defining/quantifying information. The general idea holds that ordered structures will have usable data that can be pulled from them, as opposed to a state of total entropy where there is no distinction between structural states, all is uniform and useless.

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Penisanthonydoubs t1_iwru8p3 wrote

So if I knew more about information theory, a well developed field of statistics, i would be able say that you're wrong about information bits, a made up word defined in a pop science article trying to guess what dark matter is?

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dern_the_hermit t1_iwrufih wrote

I don't think they were inviting you specifically to refute anything, but you really ought to be asking them.

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QVRedit t1_iwsf6rk wrote

Surely charge and spin, require information too, to store their values ?

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Penisanthonydoubs t1_iwuz0as wrote

How does that in any way relate to my question

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QVRedit t1_iwv03l0 wrote

Yeah, maybe it doesn’t. But the short answer is; we just don’t know !

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Penisanthonydoubs t1_iwx9dc4 wrote

You're right, I've actually been thinking the dark matter might be the result of invisible fairies with diarrhea. Guess we'll never know for sure

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QVRedit t1_iwy8a9x wrote

Well we can be fairly sure that that particular explanation is not the case..

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