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From: simon@psuvax1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Out of Virtual Memory?
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 22:53:14 EST
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Keywords:number of atoms in universe


I can't resist. The assertion that arbitrary amounts of data (arbitrary as in 
more that the number of atoms in the universe or other similar quantities)
could be stored by reflecting electromagnetic radiation between two antennas,
far away from each other, is nonsense. In order to create and to mantain the 
field you use energy. There is only a fifinte amount of it (no, you cannot 
reduce field intensity: photon energies only decrease with wawelength, and
you cannot have wawelengths that are too long relative to the device geometry).