Frases de Hans Christian von Baeyer

Hans Christian von Baeyer es físico estadounidense.

✵ 1938
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Hans Christian von Baeyer: Frases en inglés

“Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 23, Black Holes, Where information goes to hide, p. 204
Contexto: Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

“The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 15, Ultimate Speed, The information speed limit, p. 135

“Time has been called God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. In the same spirit, noise is Nature's way of making sure that we don't find out everything that happens. Noise, in short, is the protector of information.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

von Baeyer did not originate the quip about time, which dates back at least as far as the 1929 book &quot;The Man Who Mastered Time&quot; by Ray Cummings, where it appears on p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=YdZEAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22everything+from+happening+at+once%22#search_anchor. <br class="br">Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 14, Noise, Nuisance and necessity, p. 127-128

“As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 24, Bits, Bucks, Hits and Nuts, Information theory beyond Shannon, p. 221

“The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 9, Figuring the Odds, How probability measures information, p. 70

“An electron is real; a probability is not.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 19, The Quantum Gadget, Quantum weirdness brought to light, p. 172

“If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 25, Zeilingers Principle, Information at the root of reality, p. 231

“The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 12, Randomness, The flip side of information, p. 104

“In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 3, In-Formation, The roots of the concept, p. 18

“Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 5, Abstraction, Beyond concrete reality, p. 35

“Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 1, Electric Rain, Information in our lives, p. 3

“Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 8, The Oracle of Copenhagen, Science is about information, p. 64

“Nowhere is the difference between either/or and both/and more clearly apparent than in the context of information.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 20, A Game of Beads, The wonder of quantum superposition, p. 182

“Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 11, The Message on the Tombstone, The meaning of entropy, p. 97-98

“Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 16, Unpacking Information, The computer in the service of physics, p. 138

“As with all quantum devices, a qubit is a delicate flower. If you so much as look at it, you destroy it.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 21, The Qubit, Information in the quantum age, p. 187

“In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 13, Electric Information, From Morse to Shannon, p. 121

“The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 18, Information is Physical, The cost of forgetting, p. 154

“Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.”

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Fuente: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 6, The Book of Life, Genetic information, p. 48

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