On 23-7-2009 10:30, Invisible wrote:
> andrel wrote:
> 
>> Aside: Your cell phone's state space far exceeds the number of 
>> particles in the universe multiplied by the age of the universe 
>> measured in Planck times. What was your point?
> 
> Damn, that's a nice calculation. I wish I had the data to do crap like 
> that! :-D

Not that difficult. Your cellphone has presumably several megabytes of 
storage. One MB corresponds to roughly 10^(2400000) states. (8million 
bits 2^10N is approx 10^3N)
Number of particles in the universe, don't know, but number of atoms is 
generally though to be around 10^80. Number of particles is much larger 
say by a factor of 10^10 (which may be an overestimation). total so far 
10^90. Age of the universe 3.5e17 seconds. Planck time 5.4e-44. so about 
6e60 planck times. Multiply:  6e150 which still leaves a factor of 
10^2399849 to play with.

Probably lots of math mistakes, but you get the point.

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