Will science end?

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Well, the good news is that our universe contains "only" around 10^80 atoms. It in fact doesn't really matter wat number it "only" is, as long as it's a number, any number. (Some types of infinity possibly excluded.) If you build a computer out of any number of atoms it will not be able to perfectly model the behavior of all the atoms it consists of, not in real time anyway. A model that perfectly simulates a thing will always be less efficient than the thing, and require more of at least one resource. Models includes things like books, and also brains. A book that describes a thing in perfect detail has to be made of more particles than the thing itself. This means the amount of data we could possibly store in the universe is not enough to perfectly describe the universe. (According to some estimates it might not even be enough to store all possible games of chess.) Even ones all of the universe has been turned into one big computer that computer will be incapable of storing everything there is to know about it, which means as long as you want you can keep discovering things, store them on the computer and/or your brain and then go: "huh, you know, the data I just erased to make room for that was actually kind of interesting too, let's go rediscover that."

Oh, by the way, hi Max(imum 77)! I didn't realize we had both washed up here again during the same time frame.