Information The New Language of Science / Hans Christion Von Baeyer

CONTENT

1 Electric Rain: Information in our lives 3
2 The Spell of Democritus: Why information will transform Physics 11
3 In-formation: The roots of the concept 18
3 Counting Bits: The scientific measure of information 28
5 Abstraction: Beyond concrete reality 35
6 The Book of life: Genetic information 42
7 A Battle Among Giants: Reductionism and Emergence 54
8 The Oracle of Copenhagen: Science is about Information 61

Classical Information
9 Figuring the odds: How probability measures information 69
10 Counting Digits: The ubiquitous lograithm 81
11 The Message on the Tombstone: The meaning of entropy 90
12 Randomness: The flip side of information 99
13 Electric Information: From Morse to Shannon 111
14 Noise: Nuisance and Necessity 122
15 Ultimate Speed: The information Speed limit 129
16 Unpacking Information: The computer in the service of Physics 136
17 Bioin informatics: Biology meets information technology 145
18 Information is physical: The cost of forgetting 153

Quantum Information
19 The quantum Gadget: Quantum weirdness brought to light 163
20 A Game of Beads: The wonder of superposition 175
21 The qubit: Information in the quantum age 183
22 Quantum Computing: Putting qubits to work 193
23 Black Holes: Where information goes to hide 204

Work in Progress
24 Bit, Bucks, Hits and Nuts: information theory beyond shannon 215
25. Zeilinger's principle : Information at the toot of reality 222
Notes 235

Include Index: p248-258