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From: art@acc.arpa
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Subject: Re: Re: /dev/null: The final frontier
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 18:29:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 18:29:54 1987
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Now SERIOUSLY :-) hasn't ANYONE heard of "The Law of Conservation of Bits"?
This law states that bits can't be created or destroyed, only transformed
between 0 state and 1 state.  The number of bits (and anti-bits) created
in the "Big Bang" is therefore constant.  Where do you think that all those
bits you write to the null device came from?  They are extracted from the
ETHER and that is precisely where they end up when written to the null device
or written over in a machine register.

Some of the newer Binary Unified Gauge System (BUGS) theories predict that
a bit with no external perturbations may spontaneously change its state.

It is left as an exercise to the reader as to what happens when a bit and
its counterpart anti-bit come in contact.

					(-:  Art@ACC.ARPA  :-)

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