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So... who're the architect(s) for the station? How did they go about laying the tiling on that facade, programming the CNC to cut the pattern in the aluminium,
by GuiA 9y ago
So... who're the architect(s) for the station? How did they go about laying the tiling on that facade, programming the CNC to cut the pattern in the aluminium, etc.? Sounds like there are probably some interesting people behind it all.
- logicallee 9y agoIn A New Kind of Science, Wolfram made the bold conjecture that the whole universe might be a cellular automaton. So there doesn't necessarily have to be a designer: it could just be part of the fabric of the universe itself, just as he breathtakingly predicted! I mean, he wasn't really thinking of train stations when he wrote that, it's not exactly the validation he would have liked... but I think at this point he'll take what he can get :) - EDIT: downvotes but I thought this was funny :)
- amelius 9y agoDid Wolfram give any clue about how e.g. relativity may emerge from a cellular automaton?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI think he might have. It's been a long time since I read his book, but see here: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-physics/ https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-physi.... I also remember reading elsewhere that e.g. speed of light (as a finite information speed limit) limit emerges straight out of casual networks generalized to be continuous instead of discrete.
- Jach 9y agoWhich relativity? :) No idea about Wolfram but special relativity doesn't need very many assumptions; you can do it if all you assume are causal sets and a quantification scheme: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4172 https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4172 And since Conway's GoL is Turing-complete, you could maybe construct something using the Strong Church–Turing thesis.