On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:21 -0800, Christoph Birk wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Don Dailey wrote: > > One of the theoretical limitations to > > computing power (which was layed out in someones posts) and I have > > always understood to be the case, is related to > > space - the physical size of the universe. > > The problem with higher dimensions is that they are small AND they do > NOT increase the 3-dimensional volume of our universe. > Imagine a 2 dimesional (finite) surface and bend it in some way > (eg. cylinder) ... even though your 2-dim "universe" exists now in > 3 dimensions, it did not increase in area. > > > If a computer can exist in 3 > > dimensions, couldn't an infinite number of them exist with 1 more > > dimension?
I'm suggesting computers that might exist outside our 3 dimensional space, not confined to our 3 dimensional space. Perhaps there are beings that see our space as flat from their many dimensions and any physical objects they deal with, are infinitely bigger that we can observe. For instance if there existed 2 dimensional beings, we could not show them 3 dimensional objects, just reflections of them and any of our objects would be infinitely large to them. If we could build 2 dimensional computers, we could stack any number of them on top of each other and they would not take up any extra space, no? - Don > Nope; see above. > > Christoph _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
