On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Don Dailey wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:21 -0800, Christoph Birk wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Don Dailey wrote:
One of the theoretical limitations to
computing power (which was layed out in someones posts) and I have
always understood to be the case, is related to
space - the physical size of the universe.
The problem with higher dimensions is that they are small AND they do
NOT increase the 3-dimensional volume of our universe.
Imagine a 2 dimesional (finite) surface and bend it in some way
(eg. cylinder) ... even though your 2-dim "universe" exists now in
3 dimensions, it did not increase in area.
If a computer can exist in 3
dimensions, couldn't an infinite number of them exist with 1 more
dimension?
I'm suggesting computers that might exist outside our 3 dimensional
space, not confined to our 3 dimensional space. Perhaps there are
beings that see our space as flat from their many dimensions and any
physical objects they deal with, are infinitely bigger that we can
observe.
If our universe has more than 3 dimensions (say 11) then we (humans and
our computers) already exist in 11 dimensions. We are just not able
to recognize this fact.
But still this does not increase the volume of the universe. Like
bending a flat 2-d surface onto a sphere (and so making it exist in
a 3-d "universe") does not increase it's 2-d area, it just creates
a volume that can not be used by the 2-d people.
Christoph
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