From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Mar 05 1999 - 03:29:05 MST
"Gina Miller" <echoz@hotmail.com> writes:
> Damien,
> How do you purpose to "tweak" the universe without delving into the
> nanoscale? Do you know what nanotechnology is comprised of?
I would certainly say Damien knows quite well what nanotechnology is
about. Tweaking the universe will require operations on the exact
opposite scale of nanotechnology: not just megascale engineering to
merely move around planets and stars (as Dyson sketched it, this can
be done without nanotechnology) but to reshape the mass distribution
of the entire universe, possibly also engineering of the spacetime
itself. In the final moments of the collapse, nanotechnology will also
be far too crude - we will need picoscale technology and finally
technology acting on the quantum gravity scale. Nanotechnology might
make many of the intermediary steps simpler, but in the end Omega
Point engineering requires technologies far outside this.
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