Re: Indefinite Information Processing

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 22:54:20 MST

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    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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