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You can't really, by definition. By the same logic you should be able to store 1 cubic meter's worth of data storage cube into a 1 cubic micrometer of data stor
by gardarh 13y ago
You can't really, by definition. By the same logic you should be able to store 1 cubic meter's worth of data storage cube into a 1 cubic micrometer of data storage cube, which in turn could be stored in a smaller cube ad infinitum.
Going by the same logic you could store all entropy of the universe in an infinitely small cube which is not possible unless the universe had zero entropy.
- stingraycharles 13y agoBut assuming the universe has an entropy smaller than one, couldn't the data be compressed ?
- venomsnake 13y agoHmm ... go back 13.5 billion years in time and that is exactly what was the universe back than.
- gardarh 13y agoYes, and along the road we have accumulated some entropy. Anyhow, that was a rather crappy answer, the "How much entropy does the "data about a volume in space" have?" answer basically captures it.
- eksith 13y agoTinsy nitpick. The universe technically didn't exist back then (at least not in the form of spacetime), I believe. Existence itself was confined to a singularity which then expanded with tar -xzf singularity.tar.gz
- sp332 13y agoSort of, according to the holographic principle. Since there is a limit on information density in space, you should be able to reduce a 3-dimentional volume to a 2-dimentional digital data structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle