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These systems do have a feel of cellular automatons. Questions like: why every proton is exactly the same? how particles interact? why are these clouds of pa
by dchichkov 6y ago
These systems do have a feel of cellular automatons. Questions like: why every proton is exactly the same? how particles interact? why are these clouds of particles? have much neater answers, if there is a correspondence of a "stable pattern" to a "particle".
https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Spaceship#2010s https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Spaceship#2010s
- pas 6y agoThere are other particles made of quarks (generally called hadrons). Those with and odd number of quarks are called baryons. Mesons are those that have an equal number of quarks and anti-quarks. "All" protons we see are the same because the exotic configurations decay. (While protons are not yet known to decay.)
- cma 6y agoScott Aaronson gave some issues with it being cellular automata even with threads connecting them (search "Bell Inequality" https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0206089.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0206089.pdf), so Wolfram has moved on to graph automata things due to, if I am remembering right, someone figuring out efficient approximations of determining graph isomorphisms and it making evocative pictures with some simple transform models, and also it solving the Bell's Inequality no-go problem.