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Imagine the look on Stephen Hawking 1011156B's face when he finds out Stephen Hawking 7086C published the exact same paper that he did, died two weeks later, an
by keithwhor 9y ago
Imagine the look on Stephen Hawking 1011156B's face when he finds out Stephen Hawking 7086C published the exact same paper that he did, died two weeks later, and the combination of those events compelled scientists in that Universe to eventually master interdimensional travel, when 1011156B only got laughed at.
- blackflame7000 9y agoThis sounds like something Rick Sanchez would say
- nothrabannosir 9y agoWell, to be fair… if he suffers from the same ailment, I quite easily can imagine his look, actually.
- throwaway613834 9y agoSome people's senses of humor...
- einrealist 9y agoHow is the Hawking ID generated? Which universe is used for synchronization? Do we need a new UUID level? Will the NISTs of all universes ever come to an agreement? So many questions...
- andygates 9y agoMultiversally-Unique ID's are going to be so long...
- zaarn 9y agoDepends on how many of them there are. If there is infinite, there is no MUID, if it's finite and below 2^64 then a traditional UUID should be enough to assign a UUID per universe and then assing a UUID for objects within.
- jfaucett 9y ago> If there is infinite, there is no MUID Formally, you could still have MUIDs even if there are infinite universes so long as they are countably infinite. Practically, the system would work as well so long as you could allocate new qbits to boost your information exponent.
- zaarn 9y agoWell, no, as long as you want a finitely long MUID since a finite number of digits can only express a countable but not infinite number of elements.
- jfaucett 9y agoWe don't want a finitely long MUID, otherwise we couldn't represent infinite universes. A quantum bit represents infinite states. The "fiction" part is that we (currently) need to collapse quantum bits.
- akvadrako 9y agoI was going to disagree because our universe seems to be very compressible and a lot of the properties are just natural. I bet it could be defined in 0 - 100 bits at the "earliest" point. But over time, QM seems to make lots of arbitrary decisions and those also seem to create different universes if they end up contributing to macro behavior.