5 ms·

The frozen 4 dimensional object creates a projection of the other dimensions, including time and relative time. Time is hen a subsystem within the system. Thei

The frozen 4 dimensional object creates a projection of the other dimensions, including time and relative time. Time is hen a subsystem within the system. Their analogy, aptly for HN, is that of computer code which is in one dimension interpreted amd executed linearly, being able to project something like a 3D game. Think something like minecraft's source code being interpreted and creating an infinite procedurally generated world that constantly evolves with an in game timer despite the source code still being static. Quantum mechanics, the mechanics governing the source code could still make it timeless and indeterministic, but output of the code (the projection), is still bound by the in game physics and timer much like time in general relativity.

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
But is their proposal that, like Minecraft, we can detect properties of the background execution through apparent non-determinism (or other mechanism)? Cause Minecraft actually has two detectable, distinct notions of time: a game tick and update ordering of the underlying computation. Minecraft can even be viewed as having quantum effects caused by a universal nonlocal variable, Bohmian mechanics styles, with the apparent non-determinism resulting from that non-local hidden variable interacting woth the update engine. (The hidden variable is the ordering of the updates in real time rather than MC time.) I always thought we should teach physics with Minecraft, but the engine sucks too much for me to seriously recommend it. Ed: Imgur album on detecting MC update ordering via redstone; pictures somehow got out of order. http://imgur.com/a/e9YKi http://imgur.com/a/e9YKi