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There is a hard ceiling on how much information a volume can hold: try to exceed what fits on its surface and you simply make a black hole.

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  1. Janna Levin

    Theoretical cosmologist

    If I tried to pack a lot of information into a volume, more information than I could pack, let’s say, on the surface of a black hole, I would simply make a black hole and I would find out, oh, I can’t have more information than I can fit on the surface.

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