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If the propagation of effects is slowed down, the phenomena that you are interested in will take more simulation steps to complete.
by fluoridation 2y ago
If the propagation of effects is slowed down, the phenomena that you are interested in will take more simulation steps to complete.
- FredPret 2y agoI don’t know, I think the most interesting things are happening slowly and with high complexity in places like here on Earth. With a slower speed of light, I think you’ll get qualitatively different events, not just fewer events.
- fluoridation 2y agoBut you will get fewer per step, which is my point. If you get fewer, then you'll need to run the simulation for longer, thus negating any savings. But you're right in that you'd get different effects, because effects like gravity depend on the distance between objects, which is invariant on the speed of light, so a "human" in a universe where c is halved but everything else is the same wouldn't just be larger, but be completely different. But if you're changing the behavior of the simulation then it's not even an optimization anymore. You just changed the simulation. It may as well be something entirely different.