A Grain of Sand
William Blake said, ‘To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower.’ It sounds much like an advance version of WinZip or StuffIt indeed. Is it possible to see the world in a grain of sand?
Find a grain of sand that weighs a very specific value, say 0.4374284729… gram. Then with a very accurate machine we measure its weight very very accurately. Then we read that specific value, position by position, and convert the value in each position to binary numbers. For example, from the value of 0.4374.. we will get, 0, 100, 11, 111, 100, etc. Appending the values one after the other, we will get a very long string of 1 and 0.
Now feed the string into a Turing Machine (computer), and generate all the digital sound and fury, that signify nothing, hidden in a grain of sand.