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Symmetry on May 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What percentage of people are alive today?

There are actually mathematical limits to the amount of information that can be stored within a given volume, the Bekenstein bound, which is a lot like a limit to knowledge.

6ren on May 10, 2011 [–]

Well... if we can make new universes, the volume isn't limited.

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