[extropy-chat] Singularity heat waste

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Mon Jul 17 19:21:44 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:11:25PM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:

> It won't do worse, but it won't do significantly better either; the best you
> can get, across the spectrum and on a large scale, is a flat black body
> radiator.

But in order to achieve equlibrium, you have to have several
emission/absorption processes, which makes the surface anything
but flat (the flatter it is, the larger the deviation from
a black body spectrum).

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