Thus, even now, three and a half centuries after Galileo...… - Julian Barbour

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Thus, even now, three and a half centuries after Galileo... it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...

Julian Barbour

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Julian Barbour (born in 1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.

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Carlo Rovelli Arthur Eddington Hans Christian von Baeyer Erwin Schrödinger Max Tegmark

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Wheeler argued that anything physical... derives its... existence... from discrete detector-elicited information-theoretic answers to yes or no quantum binary choices: bits.

Shannon information... [which] he also called entropy or ... involves things (...Shannon ...messages) and probabilities for those things.

Thus, even now, three and a half centuries after Galileo... it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves... - Julian Barbour

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