Re: fastest way to print a lot of pdf files?

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:23:06 +0000, Unruh wrote:

> Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:29:33 +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
>>> Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:32:35 +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> And the size cannot be unbounded as we do not have enought energy
>>>>>> differentiable states to contain an unbounded number for all times even in
>>>>>> the future.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have a bound? That's interesting. I can see that you can take the
>>>>> minimal length unit and time unit and divide the light cone up by it,
>>>>> multiplying by some numbers of states per this unit of volume (what
>>>>> number?), but the light cone is unbounded.
>>>
>>>> Only if you can show that $$\Omega_{cosmic} \le 1$$.
>>>
>>> Oh, I see. Current opinion is that it = 1, isn't it?
>
>>There is a common fallacy that it should be close to 1 for purely
>>theoretical reasons - the logic used is that if it were exactly 1 then
>>some theorists could sit back and relax and not have to think anymore.
>
> The measured value from WMAP is 1.

It's difficult to accept with conviction high precision results that
coincidentally agree with the value everyone expected to implausibly high
precision.

> universe will expand "forever" even if Omega>1.
>
> DeSitter space, an exact solution to Einstein's equations expands forever,
> even though Omega >1

I thought I already said something about vacuum energy screwing it up, but
if not, yeah.

>>> But I was thinking
>>> that Bill had an argument based on amount of energy available - is that
>>> bounded?
>
> There are still numerous arguments that the energy is bounded and that the
> number of states are also bounded.

I know, I published some of them (do you remember me asking ages ago if
you were the quantum gravity Bill Unruh? If so, we have friends in
common). There are almost as many arguments the other way too :-)

> All of which is completely irrelevant since the OP was talking about
> printing out an amount of pdf files on his own computer, whose energy and
> number of states and disk space certainly is bounded, and whose lifetime (
> computer and person) is also bounded.

Hey, it was Peter who spun the ball off earth and into Earth's forward
light cone. Take it up with him. Et bien, pour moi, c'est le weekend.
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