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To: TigerPaw who wrote (69128)	6/22/2016 2:06:41 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 69300

I have a long driving trip scheduled for tomorrow which is expected to include camping and hiking. One thing I plan to think about is Stephen Hawking';s latest notion that information is not lost when matter is crushed in a black hole, but instead it is somehow stored at the event horizon. I have been skeptical of this as there would have to be some sort of structured arrangement to hold the information. It seems to me that if information is always preserved, then our universe would have to store not only it's state, but the entire state of every universe that may have preceded the big bang and influenced it's beginning. That's equivalent to an infinite amount of information stored in a finite universe. Still, an infinite number of digits make up the definite and finite size of PI, so I suppose the notion is worth pondering. PI however never changes whereas our universe is always adding random new events at the singularity of "now" and so the amount of total information would always be increasing (unless the universe is entirely pre-determined and thereby has no random component). en.wikipedia.org

To: TigerPaw who wrote (69128)	6/22/2016 9:56:08 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Heard a comment recently on food-stats made by health aficionado that eating processed sliced meat products w/nitrate preservatives is equivalent to two packs a day/ciggies. The deli counters & cold section in stores are filled with them. Knew they were not healthy but not to this extent so did a double take & a small wow. Who'd be caught eating these on any regular basis? Also the popularity of taking anti-oxidants may have a downside, they might have been shown to speed up cancers already developed, though in healthy body ok.