Imagine you lived in a fictional sci-fi universe where
someone burned your favorite book or notebook. All you did was to login into
your intelligent supercomputer. The supercomputer quickly analyzed the
particles of ash, molecules of smoke, and fumes of heat to retrieve the exact
pattern of words that were written or printed in your book or notebook. This is
what happens to a notebook or a book when you burn it. There is a mathematical
property called “unitarity,” that states that a state of information is always
preserved. The only problem is, we don’t yet have such an advanced
supercomputer that can retrieve the information of a burned book from ash,
smoke, and heat. Otherwise, just imagine what if you could recover a chapter
from a notebook you burned because you thought it wasn’t good enough.
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