Re: Analog or Digital
From: Gjergj Kastrioti (skenderbeu_at_ilirus.com)
Date: 08/02/04
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Date: 1 Aug 2004 19:50:23 -0700
achillesofpersis@hotmail.com (Sina Tootoonian) wrote in message news:<b72135f.0407291203.633894ba@posting.google.com>...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup for my question, so if
> it is not, please let me know.
>
> I've read a lot of talk about whether the universe is fundamentally
> analog or digital, but this seems like a moot point to me: the
> universe is digital, or more accurately, discrete. We may be able to
> calculate pi to as many digits as required, but in nature it is
> trunctuated to a certain size. Energy is quantized. In light of this,
> I don't really understand the argument that digital systems cannot
> perfectly emulate analog systems in practice.
>
> Any light that you can shed on this issue would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Sina
an interesting article about the question whether life is analog or
digital can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/3vema =
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson_ad/dyson_ad_index.html
tana t'mirat,
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