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It could very well be that we are talking about the same thing.
I'm sure that you're at least a little familiar with the work of Shannon? He solidified the foundations of information theory in the 1940s, so yes, his work is generally very important when it comes to the study of data and information. In any case, did you study in an academic environment, like a university? I didn't, and the only reason I "lucked" on to Shannon was that I was a Wide Area Network analyst for many years and so he was a bit of a role model.
Of course, he was friends with von Neumann, and Shannon's mathematical theory of communication is really Shannon's physical theory of communication, so his work is also very much related to the foundations of physics, and it's no gigantic shock that all it takes it a crackpot with a toy version of his work to show that the black hole radiates signals once you add in an iota of noise. There are a lot of people who studied in a university environment (NO PAYWALL) who had absolutely no excuse to ignore Shannon's importance for decades. And to think that all of this nonsense was going on largely via the Internet and other forms of telecommunication. How... ironic.
Do you have your work online anywhere that I can read it?