Re: poly: eschatology

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> Anders Sandberg writes:
> > No, matter is not that relevant. What is needed is phase space volume
> > - you can store states/information in energy too.
>
> Assuming you could find some way to read and write that information --
> not necessarily that obvious -- there is still only a finite amount of
> mass/energy in the universe at any time.

Yes, but in a Big Crunch this amount diverges. What happens is that
spacetime shear is converted into ordinary matter/energy. And if this
increases faster than the amount of information that needs to be
stored, then an informational divergence is possible.

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