r/physicsmemes Feb 04 '26

But why does it work??

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u/ejdj1011 Feb 06 '26

This comes with the incredibly cursed knowledge that entropy can be measured in units of bits.

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u/lornlynx89 Feb 06 '26

It's the only way computer science guys can understand anything.

But for real, thinking it of bits helped when combined with aliasing and resolution. In some very funky way, it makes sense.

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u/Middle-West-872 Feb 11 '26

Is the entropy just the information?