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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: electrons as a bound on memory size (was VLMM, crypt)
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 14:07:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 14:07:38 1986
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In article <mmintl.1832> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>In article <541@cubsvax.UUCP> peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
>>This would seem to imply (perhaps stretching things a bit, but what the
>>hell -- you only live once!) that at the moment of the big bang there was
>>no information present in the universe (since T was infinite, I believe).
>
>I'm not sure about the reasoning, but I believe this conclusion is correct.

Your remark reminds me of a syllogism mentioned by a philosophy professor I once
had.  He said:  ...all camels are over 100 feet tall;  everything over 100 feet
tall has four legs;  therefore, all camels have four legs....  I always though
this was a good metaphor for science.

You might argue that not all camels have four legs (there are birth defects,
accidents, etc.), but that's experimental error....

Peter S. Shenkin	 Columbia Univ. Biology Dept., NY, NY  10027
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