Re: A massive database

Glenn Knickerbocker <NotR@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Mike M wrote:
Can a database be massive? Does it have any actual mass?

According to information theory, it has entropy; according to
thermodynamics, entropy represents energy; according to relativity
theory, energy has mass. So, yes, though it's extremely small.

Well reasoned.

But the meaning of a word as specialized scientific jargon generally
isn't its only meaning, and doesn't supersede other meanings the word
already has. "Massive" had plenty of meanings unrelated to inertia and
gravity before Newton's Laws were eventually reformulated using the word
"mass."

Mass. being a State of matter, I think. Or a sneeze.
--
Paul
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