From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 10:06:58 MST
hal@finney.org wrote:
> Scerir forwards:
> > L.M. Krauss and G.D. Starkman wrote that:
> > http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902189
> > "We have shown that it is impossible to collect more than
> > a finite amount of any quantity that scales as the (scale-factor)^3 .
> > However, the entropy density of the universe scales in this fashion.
> > Thus, independent of issues of whether there is infinite information
> > in an infinite universe, it is impossible to collect more than a finite
> > amount. Effectively even an infinite universe allows only a finite
> > computational system.
>
> This is in the context of an eternally expanding universe, one which
> never collapses. It is too early to say for sure that our universe has
> this structure, especially given that the evidence is only a couple of
> years old.
Moreover, it is WAY too early to see if we can CAUSE our universe to
collapse in some Tiplerian way, or, if not, to spawn some child
universe into which we can flee from our own and live out an infinite
amount of subjective time in a collapsing universe.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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