Recent content by MichaelLujan

Timescale is a factor, precisely because my story takes place during the slow heat death of the universe, on the scale of a quadrillion or so years in the future.

Indeed! :) I just want to tax any potential scientifically-literate readers' suspension of disbelief as little as possible - while also still leaving some room for that quantum of mystery which itself tends to be a mark of plausibility. I want to pave a road from where we are now in terms of...

Thanks for your response! So now we're getting into the realm of ontology - are objects anything more than information in some form? If it's possible to theoretically recreate something right down to its quarks, if only one knew beforehand how every single quark was arranged, then, to quote the...

As I understand it, the crux of the issue is: how is information preserved across the event horizon, in this case, the arrangements of subatomic particles, atoms, etc right on up through the individual parts, etc., of the creature in question. That, and the relativistic escape velocity required...