Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-11 Thread Jean-Michel Veuillen
At 03:21 PM 2/10/2003 -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: 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 p

Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-10 Thread Hal Finney
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

Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-10 Thread Jean-Michel Veuillen
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

Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-09 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10-Feb-03, Stephen Paul King wrote: > Dear Bruno and Friends, > >Let me point this paper as a possible counterexample to your > argument: > > http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0205093 > > Quantum Physics, abstract > quant-ph/0205093 > From: Tien D. Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date (v1): Th

Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-09 Thread Hal Finney
Stephen Paul King refers to: > http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0205093 > > Quantum Physics, abstract > quant-ph/0205093 > From: Tien D. Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date (v1): Thu, 16 May 2002 12:10:57 GMT (28kb) > Date (revised v2): Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:26:38 GMT (38kb) > > Quantum Principles a