Information: The new language of science by Hans Christian von Baeyer, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99, ISBN 0297607251 Reviewed by Valerie Jamieson
WE may be living in the information age, but physicists remain haunted by a disturbing puzzle: what is information? Sure, we know lots about sending, measuring and receiving the stuff. But what really lies behind those 1s and 0s, the basic chunks of information?
In Information, physicist Hans Christian von Baeyer sets out to explain why this is regarded as one of the most fundamental and philosophical questions in science: information is the irreducible seed from which every particle, every…
