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Article #2768Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt
From: bruce wong
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1986 21:16
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1986 21:16
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> >As I think I've mentioned before, it is believed that there are
> >approximately 2^200 electrons in the universe. Since it is unlikely that
> >anybody would want to reference more things than there are electrons in the
> >universe, 200 bits seems like a good upper bound for the length of a memory
> >address.
> >
> >Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
>
> Yeah, but now think more like a physicist (I actually have little idea
> how to do that):
>
> We need snapshots of those 2^200 electrons from the point of the big
> bang to the present in picoseconds. And then there are the "what-ifs"...
> Not to mention their x,y,z position and various qualities like energy
> level and spin...
>
> You laugh? too bad, no?
>
> -Barry Shein, Boston University
If there are only that many electrons in the whole universe, how
can you develop storage, using electrons, that is as large ?
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