Re: Dismantle and Recreate was RE: misquote
Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Mon, 09 Sep 1996 10:03:59 -0700
At 18:16 9/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sep 9, 4:28am, Chris Hind wrote:
>
>} What if we were to assimilate all the resources of planet earth and make a
>} molecular map of the Earth inside a virtual world so that you could let the
>} ecology run free without all the people but the real material Earth would
>Uh, molecular map? A VR of the Earth down to the molecular level? In
>what medium, pray tell? Molecular circuits and memory?
Remember! you can use compression! You could compress the Earth quite easily
because there is so much redundant data and yes, you could possibly use
quantum switches or molecular circuits and memory. Imagine how many
terabytes that would require?
>You can't simulate reality in greater detail than reality.
So? All we need is for the necessary laws of physics to be present and
anything beyond that is unnecessary. Like I'm sure dark matter has a direct
effect on our planet other than gravity pull.(sarcasm)