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Old April 26th 07, 11:02 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Bill Habr
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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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How do you make them go faster than the speed of light? Seems you can
only make them smaller so their EM signals have a shorter distance to
travel?? Would a computer that is very close to absolute zero,work
better than one at room temperature? Bert

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/BREMER_LIMIT.html

BREMERMANN'S LIMIT
No material system whether artificial or living can compute more than 2 x 10e47 bits per
second and per gram of its mass. This limit refers to a self-contained system where the
power supply is included in the total mass and where computation" is defined as the
transmission of information over one or more channels within the system. Recognizing that
computation requires energy for changing physical markers and for recognizing such changes
in subsequent steps, the limit is obtained from Einstein's relation between energy and
matter, E=mc2, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which specifies the inaccuracy or
noise in the measurement of energy. Current computers are far from approximating this
limit because they are not yet designed to utilize atomic events for the storage and
transmission of information and are subject to thermodynamic limitations instead.
Bremermann's limit applies to material systems and concerns real events, sign vehicles or
descriptions. It does not apply to events outside the system that can or are represented
within it (see symbol http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/SYMBOL.html )



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Old May 3rd 07, 04:48 PM posted to alt.astronomy
G=EMC^2 Glazier[_1_]
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There is a great probability that the day will come that computers will
read our minds. That will be the day nature created humankind to create
computers so it can see itself. sad but I predict it Silicone
intelligence will replace carbon 12 bert

 




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