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That's not a very good assumption; the universe has a finite size and therefore cannot contain an infinite amount of information.
by db48x 11y ago
That's not a very good assumption; the universe has a finite size and therefore cannot contain an infinite amount of information.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoThe observable universe appears to have finite size. I don't know how you could prove it though.
- nitrogen 11y agoThe observable universe is effectively defined to be finite in size. The proof comes from the speed of light.
- jcoffland 11y agoAssuming a big bang is the source of all matter. Our observable universe may only be a spec in something much larger with out violating any of our "laws" of physics.
- jcoffland 11y agoAssuming the observable universe is everything there is is not a good assumption.
- szemet 11y agoIf the universe cannot contain infinite amount of information then it follows that there are infinite knowledge we cannot know - simply because we cannot store it anywhere (in brains or computers or anywhere). For example: exact prime factorization of all natural numbers, etc... Of course this is true only if you accept induction. So you can still back off by declaring yourself finitist* ;) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism