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Information and energy are related because having information about a system allows you extract usable energy from it and do work. If I have a bucket of bounci
by tedsanders 11y ago
Information and energy are related because having information about a system allows you extract usable energy from it and do work.
If I have a bucket of bouncing balls, and you send me a stream of bits that tells me the configuration of those balls, suddenly my ability to do work has risen because I can now efficiently extract energy from those balls. In that sense, energy can be transmitted as information.
I don't think there's a more direct way of doing what your question suggests because sending energy (whether it is informative or not) always means that energy is sent. Because energy is conserved, if my energy goes up, then somewhere else in space something else's energy has gone down, and that change is, by definition, sending energy.
- api 11y agoThat's what I mean. It's not a conservation violation, but I could see it as a very interesting way of transmitting energy across long distances. Even if it were inefficient it could still have some fascinating applications.