So there maybe physical limits on certain technologies, but are there
limits on human creativity in creating new technologies? We may fill
the capacity of a silicon chip, but what about a chip made of something
organic? or some other yet unthought of way to store info? Certain
ideas may
So there maybe physical limits on certain technologies, but are there
limits on human creativity in creating new technologies? We may fill
the capacity of a silicon chip, but what about a chip made of something
organic? or some other yet unthought of way to store info? Certain
ideas
There are ultimate physical limits on the speed of data processing,
Are there? I mean, there are limits on how fast silicon can go, but
are there real limits on how fast /any/ material can go?
but I don't see why there are any limits on computer programs, and
thus no limit to software
Fred Foldvary wrote
There are ultimate physical limits on the speed of data processing,
Jon Cast wrote:
Are there? I mean, there are limits on how fast silicon can go,
but are there real limits on how fast /any/ material can go?
Divide the diameter of a neutron by the speed of light:
you
--- Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Economic activity can't increase indefinitely,
because eventually we'll have improved our technologies
to the limits imposed by physics
Fred Foldvary wrote:
I don't see why physics limits all technological progress.
For example, someone could write
--- Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Economic activity can't increase indefinitely, because eventually we'll
have improved our technologies to the limits imposed by physics
I don't see why physics limits all technological progress.
For example, someone could write improved software, and that
John Perich wrote:
. . . here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out,
making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
economics a waste of time. . . .
Not a complete waste; the study will be useful toward
setting up ecosystems elsewhere.
--
Anton
not convincing.
Steffen
-Original Message-
From: John Perich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: entropy and sustainability
Well, Fred beat me to the punch here on the smart-aleck response. Unless
you mean entropy as something other
Because I don't agree with
that, I'm looking for
profound arguments against that costly influence.
From Jean Bricmont's essay Science of Chaos or Chaos
in Science in _The Flight From Science and Reason_,
ed. Paul Gross, et al:
As discussed in Penrose [R. Penrose, 'The Emperor's
New Mind'
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:10:59AM -0700, Fred Foldvary wrote:
Entropy says a closed system will dissipate into unavailable energy.
Entropy applies to open systems too. The way it works is, a given energy
source (the sun) and heat sink (outer space) allows you to remove so many
bits of entropy
Dear armchairs,
who among you knows something new about the consequence of entropy on
sustainability and environmental/ressource economics (books, papers, etc.)?
Steffen
I know something: any article on economics with the word entropy is likely
to be nonsense, unless it itself declares such
, the sun will burn out,
making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
economics a waste of time. There's an obvious connection to entropy right
there.
-JP
From: Fred Foldvary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: entropy
Do you mean this even when entropy is used in the context of information
theory?
Gustavo
No, Claude Shannon's
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html
usage, to separate noise from information, regards statistical entropy, a
measure of dispersion, a different meaning from
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