Stephen,
Amazingly, I had kind-of the same thought. From the point of view of information
flow, there seems to be an analogy between
1) falling down into a black hole and
2) "dying."
Both events results in the cessation of information flow between two observers.
In both cases one of the ob
Dear Jean-Michel and Hal,
All good humor aside, Hal makes a good point! The conditions that would
exist as one approaches the event horizon seem to be such that any signal
would be randomized such that the end result would be that Nature prevents
infinite information (or conclusions requiring
Jean-Michel Veuillen writes:
> There are other possibilities to obtain hypercomputers or Infinite Time
> Turing Machines:
>
> For instance, from general relativity: put a computer in orbit around a
> black hole,
> start an infinite computation on it, arrange that the results are sent to
> you by
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302131
astro-ph/0302131 [abs, ps(600), other] :
Title: Parallel Universes
Authors: Max Tegmark (Penn)
Comments: 18 pages, 8 figs. A less technical adaptation is scheduled for the
May 2003 issue of Scientific American. Version with full-resolution figs at
this http U
There are other possibilities to obtain hypercomputers or Infinite Time
Turing Machines:
For instance, from general relativity: put a computer in orbit around a
black hole,
start an infinite computation on it, arrange that the results are sent to
you by radio,
and jump into the black hole:
when
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