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catrastroTonic t1_iwrfagr wrote

Love the "hard drive" question. If you have a never-used hard drive it ought to have less mass than a heavily used one full of ordered zeroes and ones....right? But wait: is an unused hard drive filled with zeroes? If so, isn't a long, long string of zeroes information too? Just as a "null" hypothesis is just as informative as a confirmed finding ... sometimes actually more informative.

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evil0sheep t1_iwsqxek wrote

I think in this theory all zeros is information and random data is also information right? like the information particles represent the state of the bits on the hard drive, whatever they may be. I don't think reading or writing to the drive changes its mass here right?

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