Re: Pizza Example

In message <94dic.11396$mv5.10666_at_newssvr31.news.prodigy.com>, Eric Kaun <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> writes
>"Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Let's decompose the real world into its fundamental particles. Ooops ...
>> we've suddenly lost cause-and-effect !
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>And yet most systems, including operating systems, add power and flexibility
>by ignoring cause and effect - or more particularly, by coupling them as
>loosely as possible. Perhaps the same doesn't apply to information, but
>perhaps it does.
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>> There is a limit to lossless decomposition - quantum mechanics says so.
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>I thought entropy said so? Besides, it still depends on what you're losing.

Touche.

It's quantum. If there's a quanta of change then entropy says you've lost information :-)
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>- erk
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