From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Aug 17 1997 - 00:18:46 MDT
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, John K Clark wrote:
[...]
> It is possible to pack an infinite number of 3 dimensional objects in a
> 9 dimensional space and have all the objects be arbitrarily close to each
> other, in fact just 4 dimensions would do. This means that an infinite number
Uh, "infinite number of objects" "arbitrarily close to each other"?
Is talking about such abstractions as packing of n-dimensional objects in
n+1 dimensional space for computational purposes at all meaningful?
I notice a tendency to tear off exploring wild possibilities on this list
recently. (Extro 3 talks risen to the head?).
This is only okay if we do not longer hold by the basic tenets of science.
Future may be wild, but when talking of astro- and spacetime engineering
we are clearly discussing Postsingularity events, which are by definition
unpredictable, i.e. a waste of time.
> of objects could communicate with each other in an arbitrarily short amount
> of time, even if the objects are not infinitely small and even if the signal
> only travels at the speed of light, or even less.
[...]
'gene
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