Bekenstein Bound (was: Crypto and new computing strategies)
Hal
hfinney at shell.portal.com
Tue Apr 5 22:48:23 PDT 1994
From: mpd at netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
> Jim Choate writes:
>
> > If you accept the universe as unbounded then you have to throw out the Big
> > Bang and much of conventional physics, including large parts of what you
> > are trying to prove.
>
> I think you may be confusing the notion of "unbounded" with the notion of
> "finite". The Big Bang is perfectly consistant with the notion of a
> finite but unbounded universe.
The big bang is also perfectly consistent with an infinite and unbounded
universe. This is part of the well-known debate over whether the universe
is "open" or "closed". An open universe is infinite in extent.
However, at any given time only a finite portion of the universe is avail-
able, so the infinity is not really accessible.
Hal
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