Researchers: Error-Correction Codes hold Spacetime Together

Some articles in the pop-science press appeared this week on the 
topic; so I traced down a paper by the researchers.

Interestingly, I heard a similar idea floated in the 1990's,
but apparently nothing was published at the time.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7041


Steve

On 10.01.2019 4:33, Steve Pope wrote:
> Some articles in the pop-science press appeared this week on the
> topic; so I traced down a paper by the researchers.
>
> Interestingly, I heard a similar idea floated in the 1990's,
> but apparently nothing was published at the time.
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7041
>
>
> Steve
>

Actually, there's a link between theoretical physics and error- 
correcting codes.

In particular, it's explored in the book "Information, Physics, and 
Computation" by M�zard and Montanari.

(If anything, it can be easily acquired from libgen.io)

I haven't read it myself, though.

Gene.

p.s. A friend who is a theoretical physicist has once suggested me to 
read that book and discuss it with him. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite up 
to the challenge.

Gene Filatov  <evgeny.filatov@ieee.org> wrote:

>On 10.01.2019 4:33, Steve Pope wrote:

>> Some articles in the pop-science press appeared this week on the
>> topic; so I traced down a paper by the researchers.
>>
>> Interestingly, I heard a similar idea floated in the 1990's,
>> but apparently nothing was published at the time.

>Actually, there's a link between theoretical physics and error- 
>correcting codes.

>In particular, it's explored in the book "Information, Physics, and 
>Computation" by M&#4294967295;zard and Montanari.

>(If anything, it can be easily acquired from libgen.io)

It appears most of this book is at the following:

https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/RESEARCH/book.html

I'm curious about the idea that nontrivial codes (e.g. not
just repetition or random codes) would occur in nature.

Steve