October 2011
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Experimental mathematics: Computing power leads to... →
cab1729: In his 1989 book “The Emperor’s New Mind”, Roger Penrose commented on the limitations on human knowledge with a striking example: He conjectured that we would most likely never know whether a string of 10 consecutive 7s appears in the digital expansion of the number pi. Just 8 years later, Yasumasa Kanada used a computer to find exactly that string, starting at the 22869046249th digit...
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skepttv: How Many Bits Are in the Universe? Seth Lloyd, an MIT mechanical engineer, doesn’t think digital physics requires an “unseen programmer.” He posits that the universe could be a computer in and of itself, rather than existing in a computer on a desk somewhere, and that phenomena can be decided using relativity. He and theoretical physicist Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara elaborate on the...
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“Ratti, a civil engineer and architect, spoke at the TED2011 conference in Long...”
– What happens when you throw out the trash - CNN.com
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