Re: the end of fermi's paradox?

From: Philip Goetz (philgoetz@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 12:49:31 MST


On 1/5/07, Tom McCabe <rocketjet314@yahoo.com> wrote (privately):
>
> It is called Landauer's principle, and it states that
> for every bit of information deleted, k*T*ln 2 J of
> heat must be released, where T is temperature and k is
> Boltzmann's constant.

So, would a solar computer (a sun turned into computronium) look any
different from a sun?



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