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Subject: Re: This IS relevant, you'll realize why later.
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"
To: jamil@acroal.com (J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 07:44:13 -0500 (EST)
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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. :-).


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