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'Internet Black Hole Discovered'Sunnuntai 19.10.2008 21:07


It seems clear that this boundary condition (surface integral of linguistic content = 0) is correct. This is equivalent to stating that there are no words or sentences that have meaning outside of a particular linguistic system (semantics + syntax). As a concrete example, a complete dictionary defines all its words with those word, so by definition there are no valid words not in the dictionary (although there are certainly valid sentences not in a dictionary).

A technological singularity immediately suggests that such informational black holes exist. They are not physical objects, just a set of information cut off (inaccessible) to humans (or any physical object) outside. If such a singularity exists, it must be constantly accessing information next to it, and this new information (ordered bits, if you will) is then inaccessible. This is just how gravitational black holes operate on matter (mass).

There is no theory, for informational or gravitational black holes, that purports to describe their internal structure. There can't logically be such a theory, because this knowledge would constitute information extracted from the black hole -- that would violate what they are. There is a 'state' parameter that is accessible for gravitational holes; net rotation, or angular momentum. This can be inferred by frame dragging effects on the matter orbiting the black hole. I don't know if informational black holes have an analogous state property.

By coincidence 'Dawn Mollzigtub' is an anagram for 'Ludwig Boltzman', similar to the famous physicist 'Ludwig Boltzmann' (originator of statistical mechanics). The non-result of Googling her name suggests she, or records of her, may have been consumed by the black hole associated with Thetus.com. Don't fly too close to the sun.

Now that we've talked about the article, I suppose enzymind.com IS a pseudo-epistolary document. Perhaps it's/we're inside the informational black hole already. It would be hard to tell.

After I wrote the article, I considered that actually constructing the such a web page from scratch would be an interesting exercise. But it would be difficult and time consuming -- I don't think I could have done a better job than Thetus.com actually did, and the task would be equivalent to constructing a black hole. .

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