Jim Choate writes:
The Deutsch paper I quoted before was where I first heard of the Bekenstein Bound which Eric Hughes mentioned. According to Deutsch:
"If the theory of the thermodynamics of black holes is trustworthy, no system enclosed by a surface with an appropriately defined area A can have more than a finite number ...
The problem I see with this is that there is no connection between a black holes mass and surface area (it doesn't have one). In reference to the 'A' in the above, is it the event horizon? A funny thing about black holes is that as the mass increases the event horizon gets larger not smaller (ie gravitational contraction).
If I read the quote correctly, the surface area of the black hole itself is not under discussion. Rather, whether it can be contained in a surface with some area, which it can be.
Peter
Of course a singularity can be contained in a volume (not shure what you mean by surface), it is in the universe after all. I fail to see how this solves anything.