Wei Dai wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:13:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It may be impossible to construct such a machine in our universe, but can we > > achieve the same results by slowing down the consciousness of the observer > > observing a conventional computer? In other words, each observer's clock > > cycle (assuming a computer model for the observer) would double in duration > > in relation to the computer clock. Could there be such an observer in our > > universe? I suspect that there can't be because the construction of the > > observer's clock woud require smaller and smaller energy packets in the > > presence of constant background noise. > > Even if a continually slowing observer (CSO) could exist, it's > relationship to a normal computer would not be the same as that of a > normal observer to a RAC. To a normal observer, there is some finite > subjective time in the future when the RAC will have gone through an > infinite number of clock cycles, but to the CSO there is no finite > subjective for when a normal computer will have gone through an infinite > number of clock cycles. This is obvious when you consider that any finite > subjective time for the CSO is also a finite objective time. > > But if as a function of objective time t the subjective time s(t) is such that Lim t ---> Infinity s(t) = 1 then after a subjective time of 1 second an infinite amount of objective time will have passed, unless you assume that the CSO can only exist at times s(t) < 1 . Saibal