Max Tegmark - Physics of Information

Information has become increasingly important in understanding the physical world around us, from ordinary computers to the underlying principles of fundamental physics, including quantum theory. How can information help discern physics? What can physics contribute to understanding information? And what about quantum information?
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Max Tegmark is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in Physics and a BA in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He also earned a MA and PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley.
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  • @jacobchateau6191
    @jacobchateau6191 Жыл бұрын

    It's such a beautiful honor to watch these conversations right after they happen. Love you all. Thanks.

  • @tflashtube
    @tflashtube Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this amazing series, this fascinating quest.

  • @jacobchateau6191
    @jacobchateau6191 Жыл бұрын

    Noticing the recent conversations are filled with a profound and resonant sense of true awe.

  • @jacobchateau6191

    @jacobchateau6191

    Жыл бұрын

    How curious

  • @petergreen5337
    @petergreen5337 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much publisher. Very helpful and interesting.

  • @mechannel7046
    @mechannel7046 Жыл бұрын

    One of the most mind-blowing 4 minutes 57 second videos ever! Maybe consciousness is truly fundamental. Thank you for posing the question to Tegmark

  • @vannalikehannah6776

    @vannalikehannah6776

    Жыл бұрын

    MeChannel Check out Lex Friedman Podcast from today about Consciousness is fundamental. You will enjoy. 😊

  • @mechannel7046

    @mechannel7046

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vannalikehannah6776 Will do. Thank you for letting me know!

  • @tannhausa5411

    @tannhausa5411

    Жыл бұрын

    tom campbell - my big toe enjoy exploring the new paradigm shift :)

  • @muskduh
    @muskduh6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the review.

  • @BC-hz4ut
    @BC-hz4ut Жыл бұрын

    The most fundamental existential Mechanism in the universe is “Exploration of degrees of freedom”. Information describes the kinetic and potential of this exploration. The most effective structure for this exploration is when there is a processing unit,a storage unit and a mechanical unit for the information. This triune structure can be seen from human beings with a conscious(processing unit) ,subconscious/genetics(storage unit) and body(mechanical unit) to a black hole with a holographic surface (mechanical unit),bulk(processing unit), singularity(storage unit).

  • @jamenta2
    @jamenta2 Жыл бұрын

    Need more information on information.

  • @CreationTribe

    @CreationTribe

    Жыл бұрын

    Information recursion ... I like it: Information on information on information on information on information on information on information on ...

  • @kylebowles9820
    @kylebowles9820 Жыл бұрын

    Damn this one needs to be much longer!

  • @Arcadianx98
    @Arcadianx98 Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know why these are free on KZread? How can I watch the full length episodes on streaming somewhere?

  • @WildMessages

    @WildMessages

    Жыл бұрын

    I believe there is a website? There are so many episodes

  • @natesgarage
    @natesgarage9 күн бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @terrycallow2979
    @terrycallow2979 Жыл бұрын

    Richard I commented on CTT and asked what you think of Tom Campbell and his book "My Big Toe" Do you think he is correct in his views on consciousness?

  • @Jonnygurudesigns
    @Jonnygurudesigns Жыл бұрын

    He's so enjoyable to listen too

  • @moses777exodus
    @moses777exodus Жыл бұрын

    4:40 "like energy". Energy Is Information.

  • @tuneboyz5634
    @tuneboyz5634 Жыл бұрын

    Currently reading his book "Our Mathematical Universe" Highly recommended

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    How does information come up in general relativity?

  • @BigJohn6060
    @BigJohn6060 Жыл бұрын

    more fundamentally - what do they mean by information in this context?

  • @dragossorin85

    @dragossorin85

    Жыл бұрын

    In a simplified version, information might be the instructions for every process happening at a quantum level leading to the existence of mater and the whole universe with all its exotic processes happening

  • @gettaasteroid4650

    @gettaasteroid4650

    Жыл бұрын

    I think there's enough argument there to presume Vakarelov pre-cognitive semantic information: there's the interface theory of meaning, "how can information-using systems exist and what makes them such" But there are consistent circular proofs so it's not clear that information has some natural value

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam65 Жыл бұрын

    Love this channel Closer to Truth. Perhaps Information is like Mind and is Stored Dimensionally. A Quantum Sleeve like Russian Dolls.

  • @walterfristoe4643
    @walterfristoe4643 Жыл бұрын

    I was blown away when I found out that information actually has mass! 😵‍💫

  • @francesco5581

    @francesco5581

    Жыл бұрын

    ...i doubt that ...

  • @caricue

    @caricue

    Жыл бұрын

    There was an early investigator who insisted that at the moment of death the body got slightly lighter as the soul departed. He had data and everything. Of course, it was nonsense. Where's your data?

  • @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC

    @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC

    Жыл бұрын

    *"I was blown away when I found out that information actually has mass!"* ... No mass, but there is a specific unit of energy attached to a single "bit" of nondimensional information. That miniscule amount of energy allows for mathematical calculations which actually increase the amount of available energy. A simple equation such as (1 + 1 = ?) doubles the amount of available information energy. This is how information propagated into multidimensionality (i.e., the universe). When nondimensional information energy is forced into dimensionality, you end up with quarks, electrons, and gluons. This also does not violate the 2nd Law of thermodynamics because the 0-dimenion is not a closed system.

  • @dohpam1ne

    @dohpam1ne

    Жыл бұрын

    It's more that mass has information.

  • @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC

    @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dohpam1ne *"It's more that mass has information."* ... Mass is a property of dimensionality. You have to have 3 dimensions before you can have mass. ... Information, however, is dimensionless.

  • @moses777exodus
    @moses777exodus Жыл бұрын

    4:00 Some may argue that quantum entanglement could show that Information Can travel faster than light. Information is non-material/immaterial and mass-less.

  • @MRnormi98

    @MRnormi98

    Жыл бұрын

    No physicist would argue that. There is no theoretical possibility nor observation of such fact.

  • @felipedepalma3090
    @felipedepalma3090 Жыл бұрын

    Don't you find Robert ressembles more and more to Einstein? Mustache, glasses, haircut... Maybe it's me, because this channel is about physics.😂😂

  • @tomatoplantsgonewild1470

    @tomatoplantsgonewild1470

    Жыл бұрын

    I was going to say that his goal to look like Einstein is coming along nicely.

  • @kipponi

    @kipponi

    Жыл бұрын

    It is true and then he is closer to truth.

  • @reaganmcguire3463

    @reaganmcguire3463

    Жыл бұрын

    It's you.....

  • @david2023a

    @david2023a

    Жыл бұрын

    Thought that when I first saw him, lol

  • @benzcruiser1602

    @benzcruiser1602

    Жыл бұрын

    Don’t! I can’t stop looking and thinking this now 🤣🫢 yep it’s there

  • @tannhausa5411
    @tannhausa5411 Жыл бұрын

    TOM CAMPBELL - MY BIG TOE the next paradigm shift ❤

  • @USUG0
    @USUG0 Жыл бұрын

    "information" sounds just like a new fancy marketable synonym of energy flow

  • @tannhausa5411

    @tannhausa5411

    Жыл бұрын

    energy is just a metaphor for information in process

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын

    What is meant by information? Is information physical or other substance?

  • @caricue

    @caricue

    Жыл бұрын

    They seem to be saying that matter is information in the sense that it can be understood with information theory. I'm sure many of them think that it is some kind of physical information, but they are just projecting. Information is only created and used by a mind, so nothing in nature contains information, not even DNA.

  • @simonhibbs887

    @simonhibbs887

    Жыл бұрын

    Information is a way of quantifying the number of states a system can be in. So a binary digit stored in a computer could be in one of two states, so a fundamental particle might have several states it could be in. The physical processes that act on a system transform it's state, and so also change the information it represents, and it turns out that all of quantum mechanics can be re-phrased purely in terms of changing information states. I hope that helps.

  • @caricue

    @caricue

    Жыл бұрын

    @@simonhibbs887 That's what I meant to say, but I never cared enough to listen closely and learn the terms. I really wish they had coined a new word for this kind of "information" in order to avoid confusing laymen and some scientists who will go around insisting that mindless particles are "made of information" when they certainly aren't.

  • @simonhibbs887

    @simonhibbs887

    Жыл бұрын

    @@caricue I honestly don't know how seriously to take the question of whether information is fundamental. On the one hand it's a fascinating way to think about physics and the world and interesting insights are coming out from it. On the other hand information is essentially just a description, so really all were saying is that the state of particles and systems can be consistently considered in terms of irreducible descriptions. I mean, that really shouldn't be surprising right?

  • @caricue

    @caricue

    Жыл бұрын

    @@simonhibbs887 I think we are agreeing on this point but using different verbiage. As long as everyone understands that we are projecting "information" onto nature, there isn't a problem, but many people do talk as if there really is information out there somewhere. It's the same with math in nature. Some people, even scientists, will see a cow wander into the pasture where two cows are already present, and say that math happened, but nature has no mind, so no math or information can happen, even if someone insists that they have seen it.

  • @rabidL3M0NS
    @rabidL3M0NS Жыл бұрын

    Information is literally just energy/form in formation… Form is all there is ☯️〰️〰️〰️101010

  • @womagrid
    @womagrid Жыл бұрын

    You might be interested in the work of the Information Physics Institute

  • @simonhibbs887
    @simonhibbs887 Жыл бұрын

    This goes to the heart of the disagreement I have with panpsychists that think consciousness is everywhere and everything is conscious. If consciousness is a form of information processing, it doesn't follow that all information processing is a form of consciousness, any more than a horse being a form of animal means all animals are horses. Nevertheless they're on the right track because information is everywhere and all physical processes are information processes, or even computational processes in some sense.

  • @avi8r66
    @avi8r66 Жыл бұрын

    This is like saying a hammer conveys information about motion to a nail when it is used to bash a nail into a board. Sure, you can describe it this way, sort of, but you have to push word usage to it's limits. And doing so allows you to conflate data with gravity, for example, which confuses the discussion and opens a door for a gap for a god to fill.

  • @maxwellsimoes238
    @maxwellsimoes238 Жыл бұрын

    Guys abstract phisch though information is narrow mind. Fundamental phisch level are links experience before any level it show up informations. Lack honestly phich standard.

  • @Robinson8491
    @Robinson8491 Жыл бұрын

    Still think we are not getting past energy. But I'm not a physicist

  • @willnzsurf
    @willnzsurf Жыл бұрын

    🌴😎💯

  • @michaelward878
    @michaelward8786 ай бұрын

    What's the matter you don't have enough information on information to make a longer video.

  • @matterasmachine
    @matterasmachine Жыл бұрын

    Physics is information. Statistics.

  • @yayayaokoksure
    @yayayaokoksureАй бұрын

    Information is a human construct

  • @kevinbeaty8344
    @kevinbeaty8344 Жыл бұрын

    Key takeaway: the answer will involve information

  • @AS-zc8mr
    @AS-zc8mr Жыл бұрын

    information cant move faster than light.

  • @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC

    @0-by-1_Publishing_LLC

    Жыл бұрын

    *"information cant move faster than light."* ... The expansion of the universe moves faster than light. Expansion = information.

  • @petrandreev2418
    @petrandreev2418 Жыл бұрын

    Did I understand correctly that we are talking about overcoming the speed of light? Through quantum entanglement? In principle, we move faster than the speed of Light in the Universe, and we are also information). But is it true that through quantum entanglement humanity can theoretically teleport one bit of information to any distance instantly? It looks like this, but is it?

  • @yourlogicalnightmare1014
    @yourlogicalnightmare1014 Жыл бұрын

    Why is Luke Skywalker being interviewed?

  • @jurisbogdanovs1
    @jurisbogdanovs1 Жыл бұрын

    Funny enough, neither these guys nor anyone else is able to give a definition of WHAT IS INFORMATION...

  • @S3RAVA3LM
    @S3RAVA3LM Жыл бұрын

    Information isn't something by itself, it's from a relative pov of subject - object relationship. Illumination isn't something by itself, it is the light. What we collect as information would be the majesty of God -- Knowledge. Somebody in the comments mentioned information of information, which doesn't really work. We are being 'informed' of a Ultimate Knowledge. Knowledge is what informs. Information doesnt inform Knowledge. Nor does illumination brighten the Light.

  • @Sauromannen

    @Sauromannen

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow, many words of nonsense.

  • @Cymatic-Mage

    @Cymatic-Mage

    Жыл бұрын

    Not nonsense 😊 Golden words

  • @goranjohansson2495
    @goranjohansson2495 Жыл бұрын

    He doesn't seem to grasp that information is just patterns in physical stuff.

  • @danielgeci4513
    @danielgeci4513 Жыл бұрын

    Can science please stop rebranding old ideas as new ones please??? These topics are well covered and easily studied thru finite and discrete mathematics. Everyone's looking to coin a phrase today. God, scientists are so smug, egotistical and self absorbed. Anyway, the only thing that actually exists is information and it can be expressed with mathematics. Not revolutionary

  • @francesco5581

    @francesco5581

    Жыл бұрын

    expressed with something is very different than being something

  • @oldrusty6527

    @oldrusty6527

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow talk about a smug comment.

  • @danielgeci4513

    @danielgeci4513

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldrusty6527 tit for tat my friend.

  • @danielgeci4513

    @danielgeci4513

    Жыл бұрын

    @@francesco5581 perhaps different, but one is far superior. "Being something" is a label and labels are reductionist and counter productive. Demonstrative expression is more meaningful.

  • @francesco5581

    @francesco5581

    Жыл бұрын

    @@danielgeci4513 its like to say that a musician is the music he plays ...he is not.

  • @michaelfried3123
    @michaelfried3123 Жыл бұрын

    This is more like the physics of philosophical BS.

  • @tannhausa5411

    @tannhausa5411

    Жыл бұрын

    read tom campbell - my big toe if u really want to understand the topic

  • @JungleJargon
    @JungleJargon Жыл бұрын

    The distant galaxies are *not* expanding away from us. An infinitely expanding universe is utterly nonsensical. It’s the *distance* between us and distant galaxies that is expanded (not “expanding”) from the effect of general relativity from the lack of matter and mass between us and distant objects. Dark energy isn’t needed to explain the red shift because the lack of matter in outer space explains the expansion of distance between the enormous gravitational wells of very large masses of super massive black holes. Time also speeds up where there is less matter so there is no need for dark matter to explain the faster movement of the outer spiral arms of galaxies. The problem is that they are not taking into account simple general relativity. They aren’t considering the variable rate of time and the differing measures of distance due to the amount of matter in the vicinity. Einstein burned into peoples minds that the speed of light doesn’t change. The units of measurement to measure the speed of light do change over large distances and galaxies cover large distances. That means that the speed of light does change over large distances as observed by us. The speed of light doesn’t change. The rate of time changes and the measure of distance changes… *which effectively changes the speed of light as we observe it over great distances.* Time runs faster in outer space where there is no matter and much less gravity. This is the reason the outer spiral arms of the galaxies move much faster than expected. It’s because events take place at a faster rate the less mass and gravity there is. Distance is expanded in outer space (not expanding). Plasma jets do not stream out five times the speed of light since the distance is expanded away from gravity wells. If the distance within a galaxy affects the rate of time and the measure distance that much, *just think what happens to time and distance in deep outer space where there is no matter in our line of sight!* The distances between us and the galaxies that we see are extreme! Time doesn’t run at the same rate everywhere in the universe. Time runs faster in outer space. It just dawned on me the other day that a thousand years and a single day happen at the same time in different places throughout the universe. It's simple (observed) general relativity. Time slows down and distance is contracted because of gravity where there is massive amounts of matter. Conversely, time speeds up and distance is greatly expanded where there is no matter in vast expanses of outer space. This eliminates the need for dark matter since time is sped up in the outer spiral arms of a galaxy where there is not nearly as much matter. It eliminates the need for dark energy in outer space where distance is expanded where there is no matter. So the result of general relativity is that billions of years pass by in outer space (13 some billion years) at the same time as thousands of years pass by where we are inside of the Milky Way galaxy. ...! Billion of years and mere thousands of years are the same thing *at the same time* in deep outer space and where we are, according to physics and according to relativity. In review, time slows down where we are. Time speeds up with less gravity so the outer spiral arms of galaxies move faster. There is no need for dark matter. Distance increases where there is no matter in outer space. There is no need for dark energy to expand space since the expansion of space is from not having any matter far away from the galaxies. Deep time (billions of years) and thousands of years exist simultaneously in this universe where there is no single rate of time or measure of distance! Just think what could be the reality *when* the photons register with our eyes or our cameras/detectors and there is a collapse of the wave function as seen or detected by us within our dilated time and distance. (Our rate of time is not the universal rate of time, especially for photons.) Conclusion: The time it took for Creation and since Creation in the Bible is absolutely true! Time itself is a (real) fabrication. Only your Creator can perfectly cover for you Himself and remake you again from the inside out by the power of His true word as no one else ever can since all of your mistakes are on and against your Maker.

  • @kos-mos1127

    @kos-mos1127

    Жыл бұрын

    General Relativity does not support creation. There is no universal clock ticking in the background because time is property of the Cosmos. The first moment of time that physics model was planck time or t^-43s before that Relativity predicts that the Cosmos would be a singularity which is a state of perfect symmetry and perfect equilibrium. The standard model along with General Relativity describes how the Cosmos evolved from the singularity to what we see today and that entire sequence of events is what is known as the Big Bang. Physics do not know where the singularity came from and if something came before that it would be part of the Cosmos. They do not know how long the singularity existed because time did not exist as we know it. Asking about the origin of the Cosmos is pointless. In physics when they talk about the Cosmos it is in the context of what they can observe. There is a lot of the Cosmos that is just unobservable.

  • @tomjackson7755

    @tomjackson7755

    Жыл бұрын

    Jungle I see you are still just making up nonsense. SMH

  • @chmd22

    @chmd22

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice theory, but where is the math?

  • @JungleJargon

    @JungleJargon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kos-mos1127 The singularity is based on red shift which is misinterpreted. Red shift is from the expansion of distance in outer space where there is no matter.

  • @JungleJargon

    @JungleJargon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chmd22 Show me the math for an infinitely expanding universe.

  • @dadsonworldwide3238
    @dadsonworldwide3238 Жыл бұрын

    Need to stop calling the spirit & soul command center the word for being awake , aware and alert. Get passed this naive goofyness trying to rename it as consciousness. When I'm in a coma , asleep of dead I'm not consciously alert aware or awake but I am still in command or of my spirit soul command center.

  • @vishalpanday9607
    @vishalpanday9607 Жыл бұрын

    Why don't they invite right persons for the conference!!!!

  • @KuyruksuzSatyr
    @KuyruksuzSatyr3 ай бұрын

    Hey fellow comment reader friend! My spider senses say this is a cult - ish video. Somethings off with this channel. Be careful before going into a rabbit hole... Be sure to have friends from different communities and take care!

  • @leonoradompor8706
    @leonoradompor8706 Жыл бұрын

    God is a physicist, the main scientist. The physics of information is the goal to make the world a ripple of giving love, charity,peace,to make the world a better place to live in and not use the physics of information for greed and selfishness.There are evil greedy people use informations for lust of money, power but in the end they still feel empty, hungry,meaningless life, and lonely life, shallow life even with much trillions of money and vast power ***

  • @efabiano82

    @efabiano82

    Жыл бұрын

    9 million children under the age of 5 die every year globally.

  • @petergreen5337

    @petergreen5337

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably.

  • @MEALREPLACEMENTMAN

    @MEALREPLACEMENTMAN

    Жыл бұрын

    No

  • @Cymatic-Mage

    @Cymatic-Mage

    Жыл бұрын

    Also, without the Golden Light, their desire to do good is still muddy in their attempts. Their creations come out lacking in that Golden vibration. It's not their fault. It isnt ours.