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galimaufry | 4 years ago

I'm not sure this answers the question. The wikipedia page is about the entropy of a probability distribution. But the information speed limit is supposed to apply even if everything is totally deterministic.

If I write a single, 100% certain message and put it in a spaceship it still cannot go faster than light, even though there is no information transfer (entropy of my message (a constant random variable) is 0).

(I'm not saying you are wrong, I am asking to be corrected)

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aeternum|4 years ago

The spaceship itself represents a huge chunk of information (such as the atomic arrangement of the metal atoms making up the bolts).

galimaufry|4 years ago

I agree that there is "information" in the colloquial sense there, or even in the Kolmogorov sense. I don't understand how there is information in the entropy sense, because I do not see a random variable anywhere in this story.