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Somewhat off-topic, but it blows me away every time it's brought up that the amount of information you can store in a volume scales by the surface area covering
by LASR 2y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but it blows me away every time it's brought up that the amount of information you can store in a volume scales by the surface area covering that volume and not the volume itself.
- Dylan16807 2y agoEven wilder is that the amount of matter you can fit in there to store that information scales by the radius.
- The_Colonel 2y agoThat is indeed surprising. Is there ELI5?
- ben_w 2y ago(I think it's the radius not the area?) ELI5: Information can only be stored on energy (mass/light etc.), and the limit for how much energy you can get in a certain volume before it becomes a black hole happens to be proportional to the radius.