A story about Python... sort of

[Erik Max Francis]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" wrote:

> Hmmm. So, if the universe is open and contains an infinite
> amount of matter, then we could solve chess eventually,
> but we might have to wait a while for the limits of the
> observable universe to expand sufficiently...

The problem is the heat death ultimately puts a limit on how much
computation you can do, at least per unit volume.  Lightspeed delays
might put some dampers on the amount of a single, coherent distributed
computation you could possibly do, since you have a finite amount of
computation per unit volume possible so you need to distribute, but you
need to transmit and collect those results around at only lightspeed.

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