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Pretty great, I read the translation on arxiv.org[0] and he said that at the start of the universe there was only one or a few quanta. I'm not sure how much inf
by Vecr 4y ago
Pretty great, I read the translation on arxiv.org[0] and he said that at the start of the universe there was only one or a few quanta. I'm not sure how much information you can encode in that, probably not much, I would guess a couple kilobytes max? What I think he's saying about God is that any initial "push" or change he did to the quanta can't really control anything, so he would have to be in the universe in some other way or be able to control it from outside. I think I'm correct that all large structures in the universe came from when the universe was really hot/high energy and small enough that quantum fluctuations in that state could expand with the universe to become very large. Even with the best possible predictions, a theoretical "before universe" (not that it makes sense) God probably could not do much of anything with control of those couple kilobytes of information. To clarify, earlier in the universe quantum fluctuations could cause bigger changes relative to the size of the universe because the universe and everything inside it gets bigger/further apart as time goes on.
[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.07198.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.07198.pdf