Re: extropians-digest V7 #290

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 10:07:17 MDT


Anders Sandberg wrote:

> ...
>
>Thermodynamics makes things troublesome. While you can convert matter to
>energy, there will always be entropic losses and efficiency is never
>100% even if the conversion is. As a first approximation a black hole
>...
>
I thought that the matter-antimatter reaction was 100%, is this wrong?
 (Of course, keeping any sizeable amount around isn't going to be free,
but one could say the same for a black-hole.)

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