From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 22:54:20 MST
My question would be, how much a one time period could be processed?
Would such civilization be processing gravity-driven temperature gradients,
at fantastically large amounts, or would they be sluggish, and taking a long
time to think?
Mitch
Professori Serafino quoted:
<<Indefinite Information Processing in Ever-expanding Universes
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0302076
Authors: John D. Barrow, Sigbjorn Hervik
Comments: 6 pages
We show that generic anisotropic universes arbitrarily close to the open
Friedmann universe allow information processing to continue into the
infinite future if there is no cosmological constant or stable
gravitationally repulsive stress, and the spatial topology is non-compact.
An infinite amount of information can be processed by ``civilisations'' who
harness the temperature gradients created by gravitational tidal energy.
These gradients are driven by the gravitational waves that sustain the
expansion shear and three-curvature anisotropy.>>
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