>>14340864The amount of information that can be encoded into the universe is any number all the way to +1 of Planck's Limit. At that point, computing as we known it, would be impossible as there would be insufficient distance between any particle of any kind to "switch" and create a binary outcome, that would allow for encoding to actually take place. Thus, if that encoded information can then be derived and acted on, and condensed accordingly downwards from our base reality to it, then the density of information in the universe is not infinite, but a number so quantifiably large, that in the span of any civilization that occurs, is capable of complex thought, and is able to engage in computational mechanics into the nano, pico, femto, and so on scales or engage in spintronics, would view it as essentially infinite for its span that it exists in said universe.
So, in principle, there IS a limit and that limit would be the locality you are trapped IN. This is mainly due to the accelerated expansion of spacetime. Unless you can find a way to bypass the speed of light, you will be limited to subset below that velocity, and as space expands over time, the horizon that was once visible to you will disappear. At that point, its essentially a race against time (relatively speaking) until the expansion of space becomes so significant that the ability to encode information becomes impossible as switching something to 1 or 0 takes insanely longer and longer amounts of time. Its theorized that life can exist and information can exist at that point too, but at that point, we're talking things like how it would take hundreds of millions of years to type out this entire post of some 1900 characters, and hundreds of millions more to post it, and hundreds of millions more for you to receive it, and hundreds of millions more to process it. But that's quite beyond speculative in context.
