16 Jun
2020
16 Jun
'20
1:14 p.m.
On 6/16/20 12:29 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Q: Is that link adequate to unambiguously identify any specific location
within any sub-atomic particle in the universe?? (such as far more
detail than is required for the PHYSICAL LOCATION of the start of the
file??)
Well, let's do some spitballing here.
There are estimated to be around 10^80 atoms in the known, observable
universe, which is about 34 8-bit bytes worth. So we could have a
unique number for each atom in the universe in only 34 bytes.
In that light, the URL *does* seem to be a bit excessive.
--Chuck