ABSTRACT
Up to this point there has been much discussion about information, computation and experimentation with various physical frameworks that might be used to formulate new interpretations of both. What’s more, much of this discussion has been almost entirely theoretical and has typically only given credit to proven works coming out of the physical sciences communities. This wrongly implies that the use of ‘classically physical’ frameworks in the study of information and computation is a new thing. To believe that would be entirely wrong. A number of computing related disciplines have already found strong and practical synergies with some very well know physical frameworks, not least of which is the field of information retrieval which underwent a huge rise in prominence with the arrival of the World Wide Web and its overwhelming need to sift out specific details from the biggest corpus of synthetic information humankind has ever encountered.
