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  • Black holes are a good example of information destruction. Matter and energy fall into the gravity well, and eventually are reemited as Hawking radiation, but as far as current theories go, there’s no way to reconstruct the information that made up the original matter or energy from that radiation.

    Information isn’t a “thing” but the relationship between, and exact quantum state of, things. Once that state is disrupted, the information is gone.


  • Information is destroyed all the time, conciousness is just information, and will cease to exist in a meaningful form when the structure of matter hosting it (your body, and in particular your brain) ceases to function in a way that supports that.

    The energy that motivated your body and acted as signals in your brain will disipate. Your actual matter will stick around in one form or another. After all, we are all “star stuff”, and given long enough, our “stuff” will return to the universe at large.





  • Jeeniouss!

    So, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient, in that they move more heat than the energy needed to run them. Therefore, the neighbour should also install this system, creating a closed system that keeps both houses warm at better than 100% efficiency. I think this might solve all our energy needs, and global warming in one go. Tsk, to think the so called scientists have been trying to get fusion working when this solution is already practical.