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From: newsome@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Newsome)
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Subject: Re: Ed Fredkin
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Date: 30 Mar 88 05:06:52 GMT
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Does anyone out there know where I can get more information about Fredkin's
ideas? In particular, does anyone know how the billiard-ball computer works?
Why can't you program an ordinary computer to emulate it?  If it is based
on calculating the vectors of the billiard balls to the ten-billionth place
after the decimal point, doesn't that conflict with his notion that this
is a digital universe...or is he saying that we can store infinite amounts
of information in a finite number of bits, by using God as our overflow
memory buffer?

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Richard Newsome
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