From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Sep 07 1999 - 20:48:18 MDT
> Matt Gingell wrote:
>
> This discussion was originally predicated on the assumption that there’s some
> top-level universe where computer speed is unlimited, which strikes me as a
> rather dubious proposition. There aren’t, of course, any constraints on the kind
> of universe we can imagine, but infinite processing speed is pretty far out
> there...
Actually it does not assume or require *infinite* metacomputer speed, just
faster than we have, with a faster but finite light speed. We can do something
like Conway's game of life with our lightspeed and computer speed, and the
sim itself has a much slower apparent c. spike
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