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It's hard to wrap your mind around the fact that time and space everywhere are whimsical and warped... there are no straight lines in nature and every point in

It's hard to wrap your mind around the fact that time and space everywhere are whimsical and warped... there are no straight lines in nature and every point in space and time are locally doing their own thing... the universe just calculates everything everywhere all at once and there's no way to fit it into human comprehension.

electric_mayhem 3y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nNzNo_Xps https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nNzNo_Xps
backtoyoujim 3y ago
It's the idea that the wave function of reality doesn't collapse until it is observed ?
- 22c 3y ago
  What do you mean by "the wave function of reality"? Wave function is just a handy way to describe quantum states that can't be discretely represented otherwise in mathematical equations.
- eru 3y ago
  Only some interpretations of quantum mechanics have a collapse of the wave function.
eru 3y ago
> The universe just calculates everything everywhere all at once and there's no way to fit it into human comprehension. Because the speed of light is finite, the universe wouldn't have to calculate everything everywhere all at once. If the calculations around Alpha Centauri stopped updating for a while for a few months, and then caught up quickly, we wouldn't notice, because it's a few light years away. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon
tghoiu4234234 3y ago
au contraire. nature loves 'straight lines' (just on non-euclidean manifolds).