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In information theory, one bit is typically defined as the uncertainty of a binary random variable that is 0 or 1 with equal probability,[4] or the information that is gained when the value of such a variable becomes known.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
That sounds a lot like superposition, maybe I'm mixing things, but starting from the above,
and also from Shannon's Capacity theorem that says that "in the limit in which only a single bit of information exists within the entity being measured, only a single independent measurement can ever be made"
why can't a pair of attributes (like position+momnetum) of a quantum system be considered as having only one recoverable bit of information and saying that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle , with the equal sign, is an application over one bit ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
That sounds a lot like superposition, maybe I'm mixing things, but starting from the above,
and also from Shannon's Capacity theorem that says that "in the limit in which only a single bit of information exists within the entity being measured, only a single independent measurement can ever be made"
why can't a pair of attributes (like position+momnetum) of a quantum system be considered as having only one recoverable bit of information and saying that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle , with the equal sign, is an application over one bit ?
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