The laws of thermodynamics guide the interplay between our two actors, energy and information. To experience another example of the first and second laws, take a bite of an apple. The sugars in the apple contain what is called free energy. Free energy is energy in a highly ordered form associated with a relatively low amount of entropy. In the case of the apple, the energy in sugar is stored not in the random jiggling of atoms but in the ordered chemical bonds that hold sugar together. It takes much less information to describe the form energy takes in a billion ordered chemical bonds than it
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