From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 07:00:09 PST
To: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
Subject: Re: Bekenstein Bound (was: Crypto and new computing strategies)
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> 
> Jim Choate writes:
> >> 
> >> The Deutsch paper I quoted before was where I first heard of the Bekenstein
> >> Bound which Eric Hughes mentioned.  According to Deutsch:
> >> 
> >> "If the theory of the thermodynamics of black holes is trustworthy, no
> >> system enclosed by a surface with an appropriately defined area A can have
> >> more than a finite number ...
> 
> > The problem I see with this is that there is no connection between a
> > black holes mass and surface area (it doesn't have one). In
> > reference to the 'A' in the above, is it the event horizon? A funny
> > thing about black holes is that as the mass increases the event
> > horizon gets larger not smaller (ie gravitational contraction).
> 
> If I read the quote correctly, the surface area of the black hole
> itself is not under discussion.  Rather, whether it can be contained
> in a surface with some area, which it can be.
> 
> Peter
> 
Of course a singularity can be contained in a volume (not shure what you mean
by surface), it is in the universe after all.

I fail to see how this solves anything.