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Shouldn't that be the other way around? Plenty of things leak heat (like cooking dinner) that don't do any computation?
by blacksmith_tb 6y ago
Shouldn't that be the other way around? Plenty of things leak heat (like cooking dinner) that don't do any computation?
- 9214 6y agoMaybe. Or maybe they do but we don't know it ;)
- goldenkey 6y agoThe quantum of action, which a layperson can consider as the smallest possible state change, is actually Planck's constant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant All energy refers to is an amount of state change that is occurring every second that some quantity of energy exists. That's why action has units Energy x Time. You can divide by time and you get Energy = Actions per Second, kinda like APM in Starcraft.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) Principle of least action is really the principle of "least change." In summary, computation is happening -- but most of the computation that energy does while held as mass/matter is cyclic processes (aging.) Not anything interesting, at least to me or you. Unless you like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating