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It's intriguing, if perhaps an incorrect model. I am no physicist, but what makes us sure there's a bottom?
by mathattack 13y ago
It's intriguing, if perhaps an incorrect model. I am no physicist, but what makes us sure there's a bottom?
- chriswarbo 13y agoIMHO "bottom" is the point where any lower levels can only be pure philosophical speculation. For example, if we exist as a pure computation inside some computer, it makes no difference which of the myriad Turing-equivalent models it's based on, since they're all equivalent. Note that such a computer wouldn't have to be constrained by any of the Physics that apply inside our computation; ie. there don't need to be space or time limits.
- mathattack 13y agoAt the risk of sounding obtuse... When you say philosophical, do you mean non-measurable? (Such as parts of string theory?) To use an analogy, why can't particle physics be like a Mandelbrot which doesn't have a bottom?