[FRIAM] Physicists discover time may move in discrete ‘chunks’
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Tue Apr 23 18:52:13 EDT 2019
Thanks for posting this!
On 4/22/19 9:09 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Interesting work being done at SFI on how processes progress through time:
> https://medium.com/predict/physicists-discover-time-can-move-in-discrete-chunks-ec5e826a7395
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> The paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09542-x
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> A quote from the medium.com <http://medium.com> article:
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> The authors stumbled on the necessity of hidden states and hidden timesteps while searching for the most energy-efficient way to flip a bit of information in a computer.
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> That investigation — part of a larger effort to understand the thermodynamics of computation — revealed that there is no direct way to implement a map that both sends 1 to 0 and also sends 0 to 1. Rather, in order to flip a bit of information, the bit must proceed through at least one hidden state and involve at least three hidden time steps.
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> Thermodynamics turns up in the weirdest places!
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