Talk:Law of conservation of information

Does anyone have any idea what this article is actually about? I can't decide if the original author is trying to explain a law of Quantum information theory or if he is talking about Intelligent Design. I think everyone will agree that this page does not make any sense as it stands, and should at least be linked to something that explains the field that it belongs in. Please comment on what you think it's about and we'll go from there.


 * This certainly isn't Physics - in fact the Second law of thermodynamics contradicts this directly (if we equate entropy and information - a reasonable thing to do). The citation at the bottom is curious too - Journal of Mathematical Medicine? Nick 08:51, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Added delete notice - I think this is a misunderstanding of information entropy. Feel free to disagree if anyone thinks I'm wrong. Nick 09:05, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

'''"Information can be created but not destroyed, although it can be transferred." - law of conservation of information from quantum mechanics and quantum computer science''' 2601:580:104:AF7B:4D67:C490:D49E:865A (talk) 20:31, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

from pages needing attention

 * Law of conservation of information -- not sure where this belongs but I think this is at least close. Someone who knows this should look at it. Most of it is just a bunch of unexplained equations. Eric119 04:15, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * This is part of William Dembski's so-called theory of Intelligent Design, which is an obfuscated version of Creationism. In mainstream science there is no such thing as a law of conversation of information.  I suggest removing all the equations and replacing the text by a few sentences plus a link to Intelligent Design. --Zero 11:06, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I've looked for a while and I can't decide whether or not the original author of the article was talking about Intelligent Design or if he was talking about Quantum information science. I'm not even sure he spoke English. Either way I don't think it belongs on a page by itself and whatever information we can glean from it should be transferred to one page or the other. I'm going to ask for opinions on the discussion page. Starfoxy 04:40, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I think this is a misunderstanding of the Second law of thermodynamics and I've listed it for deletion - feel free to vote, everyone. Nick 09:13, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Information is negative entropy; entropy is not conserved. Ancheta Wis 13:08, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)