A few false assumptions there. First you assume that you can only store one peice of data per atom, when in fact you might not need atoms at all to store data. Second I would guess that since atoms can be desetroyed, that then they can be created, and therefor the number of currently estimated atoms should be of no concern. ;)

I'm sure most of us can remember thinking the idea of storing the entire library of congress on our home computers was ludicrous. And when 56k was blazing fast. Technologic barriers are meant to be broken, and we often wrongly assume they are uncermountable when it is actualy just so different from our current thinking that we can't see the answer.

Of course, all that said, i still agree that randomly generating focused pictures would be more interesting.....Or you could activily filter the randomly created images, dropping those that include your uncle or other relatives you don't want to see now or 10 years from now! ;)

Kinda a funny theory though, if ever instance in life can be captured in a picture, and you can randomly generate every possible picture, then you can generate pictures of things that are going to happen...or things that happened 100's of years ago. I wonder if that is the basis of tea leaf reading? ;)


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In reply to Re^8: Very Large Hex Combinations by eric256
in thread Very Large Hex Combinations by danambroseUK

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