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As one of my best friends told me in 1971 (we were six!), every image and sound that we produce has already been produced somewhere else in the infinite universe.


The observable universe has only 10^80 atoms. A small image of 128x128 pixels has more variations than that.


The two measure have nothing to do with each other.




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