On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:13:15AM +0200, Mikael Johansson wrote:
> > Topological theology? And we thought medieval arguments about how many
> angels
> > could dance on the head of a pin were out there. <g>
> >
> > - samantha
> >
> > answer: How ever many angels should in fact exist and have a desire to
> dance on
> > the head of said pin.
>
> Actually, Anders Sandberg has written a piece (couldn't find it just now;
> URI, Anders?) about it, where he takes Quantum Mechanics and Information
> Theory into consideration and finds an upper bound on the number of angels.
Ah, you mean: A. Sandberg, Quantum Gravity Treatment of the Angel
Density Problem, Accepted by Annals of Improbable Research.
http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Angels/angels.pdf
We derive upper bounds for the density of dancing angels on the
point of a pin. It is found to be dependent on the assumed mass
of the angels, with a maximum number $8.6766\cdot 10^{49}$ of
angels at the critical angel mass $3.8807\cdot 10^{-34}$ kg.
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