John D. Barrow Quote

We say that the string is 'random' if there is no other representation of the string which is shorter than itself. But we will say that it is 'non-random' if there does exist such an abbreviated representation.... In general, the shorter the possible representation... the less random... On this view we recognize science to be the search for algorithmic compressions.


New Theories of Everything (2007)


We say that the string is 'random' if there is no other representation of the string which is shorter than itself. But we will say that it is...

We say that the string is 'random' if there is no other representation of the string which is shorter than itself. But we will say that it is...

We say that the string is 'random' if there is no other representation of the string which is shorter than itself. But we will say that it is...

We say that the string is 'random' if there is no other representation of the string which is shorter than itself. But we will say that it is...