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"No civilization more advanced than us is going to let stupendous amounts of energy go to waste in the form of star light." Any civilisation advanced enough to
by WildUtah 10y ago
"No civilization more advanced than us is going to let stupendous amounts of energy go to waste in the form of star light."
Any civilisation advanced enough to harvest dark energy isn't going to bother with backwards, inefficient starlight.
And any civilisation that has found the loopholes in the Second Law of Thermodynamics isn't going to waste time dealing with barbaric resources like dark energy.
- danieltillett 10y agoIf you assume the laws of physics hold even for advanced civilisation then they are not going to be able to find a loophole in the second law of thermodynamics :) Even if you assume that dark energy can be harvested then any advanced civilisation is still going to be energy constrained - Bremmermann's limit far exceeds any energy that can be harvested from dark energy [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
- WildUtah 10y agoAdvanced civilizations with a constructive proof that P=NP don't need all that much compute power.