Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 07:44:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jamil@acroal.com (J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This IS relevant, you'll realize why later. Message-ID: <199712111244.HAA03778@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971211001823.29711A-100000@acroal.com> from "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" at "Dec 11, 97 00:41:09 am"
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J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect said: > > > Does anyone have any numbers for the sum total amount of information > existing in the universe? I would guess the appropriate way to tablulate > this would be to take the total ammount of matter in the form of subatomic > particles, and energy is photons and account for their position in three > coordinates and velocity vector. I'm certainly no physicist, but from > what I've read there are *NO* numbers for the ammount of matter in the > universe just percentage approximations. My guess is that you could > account for > this all in less than 2^1000 bits = 10^300, what this essentially means to > me is that it would be impractical to build a machine with a word size > expressed with more that 1024 bits (the expression of the word size, not > the wordsize itself). > I don't think that is big enough. :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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