Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> (We casually ignore for the moment the minor detail that a database
> describing the known universe would obviously be very much larger than
> the actual universe itself, and hence could not possibly exist inside it...)

Asimov solved this long ago!
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

:)

> Assuming that you could somehow examine several million million million
> records per second (highly implausible), to find the atom you're looking
> for would take... several tens of billions of times the current age of
> the universe.

BTW, what if when you finally reach the area the atom was at originally it
already moved on to an area you had already inspected?  concurrency problems?
:)

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