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As you say, the particles are random(ish), and this is exactly what makes them hard to describe completely with a simple function. "Random" means "the simplest
by celoyd 18y ago
As you say, the particles are random(ish), and this is exactly what makes them hard to describe completely with a simple function. "Random" means "the simplest description of it is the literal one", and the literal description of the position, orientation and motion of that many water molecules is a lot of information.
If raindrops were perfect crystals at absolute zero (and there were only one isotope each of hydrogen and oxygen), they would be a lot less information in them.
- markessien 18y agoYou are looking at things backwards. If you try to describe a raindrop by mapping the position of every single atom or molecule, you are creating information. But the raindrop itself does not contain any information, because it is completely random. It has no memory, and so cannot store information. There is a very small amount of information in a raindrop, no matter how complex it is from the molecular structure. The entire argument is flawed. It's based on a completely wrong premise - information is not the same thing as structure. I can't explain this any better, you will need a leap of intuition to understand what I mean, but when you get it, it will be obvious.