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The picture in the article fits perfectly, not only because of Neo stopping time, but because, more importantly, at least to me, this looks like if the Universe
by molmalo 13y ago
The picture in the article fits perfectly, not only because of Neo stopping time, but because, more importantly, at least to me, this looks like if the Universe has its own Garbage Collector. Which could mean that we are living a simulated reality [1], something like the Matrix!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality
- k__ 13y agoI think so, too. We have gaps in reality, the planck length, planck time etc. Also, we have Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which tells us about the gaps in theories we can't fill.
- monjaro 13y agoYou are assuming more about the Planck units than is currently known. Directly from wikipedia: "There is currently no directly proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of research."
- krichman 13y agoPlanck length and time are curious; but incompleteness is a mathematical construct, so it's true for all universes, simulated or not.
- atondwal 13y ago> Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which tells us about the gaps in theories we can't fill That's mathematical, not physical, so that would mean that in the parent universe somehow _something else constitutes a formal language_, which requires changing what it means to be a subset, which requires changing set theory. So if GITs are invalid in the parent universe, it means, roughly either that you can compare something to itself, and find that it contains different things that itself (absurd), or that list comprehensions are logically impossible (not as obviously absurd, but still "whaaa?").
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