Heat death of the universe

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

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> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:19:27 -0700
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> Subject: Re: key bit lengths
> 
> A late April Fool's joke, methinks? Arguing that in "several billion years"
> the "temperature" of the universe will have anything to do with
> computation....well, your physics is all wrong.
> 
> The approximate figure, kT, for the minimum energy in a conventional bit
> flip, can be reduced by simple cooling. Not a problem. And what the
> so-called "average temperature" of the Universe may be in, say, 10 billion
> years, will not affect computation. Fusion will still occur, stars will
> still burn, sunshine will still produce heat. And so on.
> 

True, but there will be considerably fewer of them doing it.

                                               Jim Choate