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Article #8805Re: How many bits are necessary to store the universe?
From: briggs
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:53
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:53
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In article <1131985279.298734.50820@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "tadchem" <thomas.davidson@dla.mil> writes: > With one bit you can create a virtual universe, but it won't *do* > anything, so it won't be very interesting. If you don't need the universe to do anything, you can encode one state in zero bits. This optimization makes it possible to simulate infinitely many parallel universes with very modest hardware requirements. John Briggs
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