Ask A Genius 1288: Calculating the Information Content of the Universe: Physics, Cosmology, and Information Theory

 Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, hey, Rick. How would you calculate the information content of the universe over time in an IC model?  Rick Rosner: Well, I’m sure that if we checked Wikipedia, we would find a roughly agreed-upon estimate of the universe’s information content, likely measured in bits, based on physical principles like the Bekenstein …

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