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String Theory, Black Holes, and Information
Four decades ago, Stephen Hawking posed the black hole information paradox about black holes and quantum theory. It still challenges the imaginations of theoretical physicists today. Yesterday, Amanda...
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Schools of Thought in the Hard and Soft Sciences
A recent post in one of the blogs at Discover Magazine the other day had me thinking about the shape of science over time. Neuroscientists don’t seem to disagree on the big issues. Why are there no big...
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Videos from the April 8-10, 2015, NIMBioS workshop on Information and Entropy in Biological Systems are slowly starting to appear on YouTube. John Baez, one of the organizers of the workshop, is also...
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
I just ordered a copy of Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies by Cesar Hidalgo. Although it seems more focused on economics, the base theory seems to fit right into...
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Quantum Biological Information Theory by Ivan B. Djordjevic | Springer
Quantum Biological Information Theory by Ivan B. Djordjevic (Springer, 2015) Springer recently announced the publication of the book Quantum Biological Information Theory by Ivan B. Djordjevic, in...
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Forthcoming ITBio-related book from Sean Carroll: “The Big Picture: On the...
In catching up on blogs/reading from the holidays, I’ve noticed that physicist Sean Carroll has a forthcoming book entitled The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself...
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What is Information? [1601.06176] by Christoph Adami (arxiv.org) Information is a precise concept that can be defined mathematically, but its relationship to what we call "knowledge" is not always...
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Can a Field in Which Physicists Think Like Economists Help Us Achieve...
Can a Field in Which Physicists Think Like Economists Help Us Achieve Universal Knowledge? by David Auerbach (Slate Magazine) The Theory of Everything and Then Some: In complexity theory, physicists...
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Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang's Triangles by Natalie Wolchover (Quanta Magazine ) “The notion that counting more shapes in the sky will reveal more details of the Big Bang is implied in a central...
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I’m already a major chunk of the way through the book, having had an early ebook version of the text prior to publication. This is the published first edition with all the diagrams which I wanted to...
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Final Draft of Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations: An Introduction by Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong | math.columbia.edu) Peter Woit has just made the final draft (dated 10/25/16) of his new...
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Tangled Up in Spacetime
Tangled Up in Spacetime by Clara Moskowitz (Scientific American) Hundreds of researchers in a collaborative project called "It from Qubit" say space and time may spring up from the quantum...
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Information Processing and Biology by John Carlos Baez (Azimuth) The Santa Fe Institute, in New Mexico, is a place for studying complex systems. I’ve never been there! Next week I’ll go there to give...
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H-theorem in quantum physics by G. B. Lesovik, A. V. Lebedev, I. A. Sadovskyy, M. V. Suslov & V. M. Vinokur (Nature.com) Abstract Remarkable progress of quantum information theory (QIT) allowed to...
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100 years after Smoluchowski: stochastic processes in cell biology by David Holcman and Zeev Schuss (arxiv.org) 100 years after Smoluchowski introduces his approach to stochastic processes, they are...
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