Re: [Patents] "Further technical effect"

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 19:35, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> quantity).  Software then is a controlled way of using the forces of
> nature to manipulate and transform a physical quantity - information.

Information == physical quantity?

I thought that:
 information expressed in a certain way on physical devices
 == physical quantity

Information expressed in abstract terms has no mass, so how can it be a
physical quantity?

Information is not a force of nature or a way to control it.
Information is a ground need for the necessary creativity needed to
create devices that will control forces of nature in a certain way.

> Spend a few months (or years) and wander throught the physics literature
> and learn something serious about the forces and quantities of nature.

The study of Physics is information; also leads to knowledge about
creation of devices to control forces of nature.

Rui
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+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
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