I'm just about to go out, but I just want to ask you if you can tell me of a single thing in the entire universe that isn't accelerating?

I mean if I sit in my chair, I'm still. Well actually I'm not becuase I'm on a rotating planet, which is in orbit around a star. And not only am I breathing, but so are other people, which influences the atmosphere around me in the most subtle manner. All of this means that my equilibrium is constantly disturbed by other influences.

As for the information vs equilibrium thing, well I'm making the assumption that if a system is in perfect equilibrium, then all particle velocity interactions will have settled, all particles have identical temperature, pressure is perfectly uniform... but what is information? Isn't it momentum, temperature, pressure, velocity, angular momentum, rotation, vibration etc? If all of these factors are uniform, then where is the information?

Anyway, taxi's due soon. I'll read through more thoroughly tomorrow.