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Simulating the Universe

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Numsgil:
Why 550?

Zelos:
cause it double by 1,5 years this days, not 2

Numsgil:
I've heard people say that, but all the hard evidence seems to support 24 month doubling.  Moore's initial article also said 24 months.

Zelos:
okey, but you dont have to worry who of us will win
cause this world wont exist then

PurpleYouko:
The question is kind of moot anyway since any computer which is doing the modelling must also be a subset of the universe in which it exists.
If that is the case then it would be necessary for the computer to have as many memory locations as the universe has particles. Even in a computer which only requires one particle of computer memory to hold a value (somewhat impossible since how many states can a particle be in?) and not counting the parts of the circuits which are not directly involved in memory storage, the computer would have to contain at least as many particles as the universe which it is modelling.

Effectively the computer would actually be the universe. Oh wait a minute! Isn't that the way it might well work right now?

And they say computers are getting smaller  

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