Tag: Information

In the vast expanse of the digital realm, where data flows like a cosmic river of 1s and 0s, one intriguing question arises: How much does the Internet weigh? This quest for knowledge led us to embark on a journey to demystify the weight of information, a concept often overlooked in the virtual land...

Causality is a central concept in our lives. It refers to the idea that one event influences another event. Our perception of causality underlies many of our personal opinions. If I believe the internet makes people dumber, or that the President has made things worse, I am suggesting a causal c...

Black Holes have always been a fascinating topic. First coined by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796, they were defined as an object which had a gravitational pull greater than that of the speed of light. These massive objects have a unique spacetime metric because their gravitational force is so great th...

Imagine if it wasn’t clear to people that the Nazis invaded Poland, there is a vaccine for polio, apartheid existed in South Africa or two plus two is four. Imagine dark forces convincing half the population that facts are “fake news.” What ramparts keep idiocracy at bay? Is it ...