Posted on 08/16/2020 6:49:54 AM PDT by zeestephen
If verified, the mass-energy-information equivalence principle will show that information is a physical, dominant, fifth state of matter, and digital bits will outnumber atoms on Earth — it’s just a matter of time.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
RSA public key encryption is based on the computational non-feasibility of factoring composite numbers which are the product of two large* prime numbers. A 4096 bit RSA key would be the product of two 2048 bit prime numbers. If one could store a table of all 2048 bit prime numbers using one subatomic particle per bit, it would require all of the particles in the observable universe times 10 raised to the 548th power!
*Large is a relative concept. The largest number that you can express is still one of the smallest numbers there is. There are an infinite number of larger numbers.
“digital bits will outnumber atoms on Earth”
The Dumbing Down of America, on display.
I read last year that the weight of the present digital mass approximates the weight of one strawberry, for what it is worth.
Can you take digital information with you?
More techy leftist BS- it’s virtual dude.
Yeah, like what about the atoms not ON the earth but below it?
PIF: “Fake News once again”
Complain to the American Institute of Physics.
It's their press release.
*ping*
Re: “I read last year that the weight of the present digital mass approximates the weight of one strawberry”
It is growing at 50% per year.
Compound that number for 200 years, and, well, you get the idea.
And two thirds of it will be blurry, out of frame cat videos.
If Man is still alive.
The guy sounds like an idiot.
Chips and magnetic media have mass. So? It’s not making mass out of nothing.
We aren’t able to make the Earth 50% more massive by making storage media/chips. Are we bringing in asteroids to do this?
Sounds like they are discounting any advances in quantum computing. They would also be assuming that the public is going to continue to support the lax-to-non-existant privacy laws.
Philosophical question: Can the number of digital bits ever be more than the number of electrons in the universe?
So, assuming I did this right, with the average large strawberry being 18 grams, 1.101946607192e26 kilotons at the 200 year mark.
...digital bits will outnumber atoms on Earth — it’s just a matter of time.
Virtual Lives Matter.
Watts Up With That is one of my daily goto sites. The articles and comments there are typically priceless. This was something that was chosen because of its ridiculous premise and many of the comments are great.
“Vopson has failed to account for anti-information, which in the case of the internet far outweighs the mass of information.”
They are capable of putting fake stuff out as anyone else on the left - the story makes no sense. Its not complaint just an observation.
What about that whole conservation of mass thingy I learned about in high school?
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