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So what's the tickrate for nature's physics simulations? I want to see it one tick after inception.

• damon_c 14y ago
  I might be wrong but I think it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time ...which if my math is right, comes out to 1/100,000,000,000,000,000th of the amount of time post explosion of this photo... I don't think it would like much!
  • chii 14y ago
    its really interesting that a discrete time unit exists. Perhaps this could be construed as evidence that the world we live in is actually a simulation.
• chc 14y ago
  That would be a Planck time, but 1) we can't measure with a precision anywhere remotely close to that, and 2) if we could time things that finely, we couldn't take a photograph of it because there isn't enough time for the photons to hit your receptor. For perspective, this photo took more than a decillion Planck times. (Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist of any sort, but I'm pretty sure this is all right.)
• joshwa 14y ago
  See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen%E2%80%93Zatsepin%E2%80%93Kuzmin_limit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen%E2%80%93Zatsepin%E2%80%... http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/ http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-... http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847 http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847 http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/hindawi-publishing-corporation/a-discrete-time-interpretation-of-the-planck-einstein-equation-x6hJMfODf5 http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/hindawi-publishing-corporation/a-...