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08:10 Sep 27 2012
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Here's something that will blow your mind.

According to the "Holographic Principle" states that there is a maximum amount of information content held by regions adjacent to any surface. Therefore, counter-intuitively, the information content inside a room depends not on the volume of the room but on the area of the bounding walls. The principle derives from the idea that the Planck length, the length scale where quantum mechanics begins to dominate classical gravity, is one side of an area that can hold only about one bit of information.

So this picture...

actually contains 10^65 bits of information. That is literally 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the amount of all information currently stored digitally (the entire internet, CDs, DVDs, hard drives etc)

I may be off by a few zeros, but not many.

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