Quantum noise and information

Abstract

This article argues that any computing system is limited by physical barriers: light, quantum, and thermodynamic, which have implications on data transmission and processing speeds. It presents a proposition that the data transmission capacity of a closed information system is constrained by its mass, proposing that the energy associated with one quantum of a signal with a frequency v cannot exceed the total mass-energy of the system. It also suggests that the mass equivalent of a quantum sets a lower bound on the energy required to transmit one bit of information per second, based on the mass-energy equivalence formula. – AI-generated abstract.