From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 15:24:51 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks)
Subject: Re: Bekenstein Bound (was: Crypto and new computing strategies)
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Jim Choate writes:

 > If you accept the universe as unbounded then you have to throw out the Big
 > Bang and much of conventional physics, including large parts of what you
 > are trying to prove. 

I think you may be confusing the notion of "unbounded" with the notion of 
"finite".  The Big Bang is perfectly consistant with the notion of a 
finite but unbounded universe.  

On a completely different note, physicists were planning to rename the 
event which created the universe after complaints from feminists that 
"Big Bang" was a sexist term.  Does anyone know what new name was 
ultimately selected?  

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