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Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
On second thoughts he must be working on this one:
Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger problems. However, it seems that grand master of the board games - chess - may remain unsolved for some time.
It has somewhere in the range of a billion billion billion billion billion possible positions, meaning that computers, with their current capacity, would takes aeons to solve it.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
I've heard it said of a game of chess of average length, that there are more permutations than atoms in the universe.Originally posted by gingerjediOn second thoughts he must be working on this one:
Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger problems. However, it seems that grand master of the board games - chess - may remain unsolved for some time.
It has somewhere in the range of a billion billion billion billion billion possible positions, meaning that computers, with their current capacity, would takes aeons to solve it.Comment
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Reminds me of a great definition of eternity I once read:Originally posted by gingerjedi
'Imagine a steel sphere as large as the Earth itself, and once every 1,000 years a fly lands on its surface and takes off again. When the sphere has completely worn away from the friction of this action, eternity will not have even begun.'It's about time I changed this sig...Comment
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I've heard that before and googled to find these approximate figures:Originally posted by Old Greg
Number of atoms in the universe 10 to the power of 79
Number of possible chess moves 10 to the power of 126
So quite a few more then.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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At such times a when people quote number like that, I am always reminded of this: YouTubeDrivel is my specialityComment
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