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This reminds me of an article I read a year back, same topic: http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-big-toe.html http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-
by lmg643 13y ago
This reminds me of an article I read a year back, same topic:
http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-big-toe.html http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-big-toe.html
"The bottom line is, if we are in a simulation, there needs to be compressive sampling because quantum effects between particles would otherwise require an infinite amount of memory, so the meaning of the wave function is that it's for data compression. [...] The fortuitous data compression implicit in wave functions is merely another reason to suspect we are in a simulation. "
- bencollier49 13y agoThe Falkenberg blog just prompted me to write on the subject, because it implies that if a creator exists, they are not omnipotent. http://www.bencollier.info/content/physics-and-demiurge-creator-not-omnipotent http://www.bencollier.info/content/physics-and-demiurge-crea...
- lostcolony 13y agoSeems like backward reasoning. It's fair to say "Hey, if the universe is a resource constrained simulation, that would explain why wave-particle duality!", but I don't see any logical requirement that "Because wave-particle duality, it must be a resource constrained simulation (if it's a simulation)".
- andrewflnr 13y agoQuite. The creator could just as easily choose such a physics for obscure aesthetic reasons, or reasons for which we have no concept at all. Furthermore, we have no way of knowing whether "resource constraints" are a meaningful concept outside our little physical universe, either.
- almosnow 13y ago"No one could be able to simukate our universe because we can't do it."
- danteembermage 13y agoOther people think this way e.g. "The Earth's creation, according to Mormon scripture, was not ex nihilo, but organized from existing matter." If God did not create the earth out of nothing, but rather organized it from existing matter, it's not that much of a jump to assume that He doesn't run simulations with infinite memory either.
- darkmighty 13y agoI'm not a physicist, but I suspect there are more convincing (physical) arguments for the discreteness of nature -- otherwise we would have non-finite (informantion/thermodinamic) entropy per unit space, which would probably lead to a handful of inconsistencies, perhaps analogous to the ultraviolet catastrophe which lead to the proposition of quanta of energy by Plank.
- lutusp 13y ago> lead to the proposition of quanta of energy by Maxwell. No, not Maxwell. Max Planck. Maxwell did something very important, but the first suggestions of quanta arose in the work of Planck.
- darkmighty 13y agoThanks, I tend to mistake them!