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I sometimes picture the Universe as being some kind of a recursive knowledge generation simulation eating memory as it learns, with (Known Universe <-> Subatomi

• slacka 13y ago
  It is interesting how counterintuitive quantum mechanics seems and yet many aspects make perfect sense in the eyes of a programmer. * The foundation of Quantum Mechanics is the idea of quanta. The data or physical quantities of a computer and our Universe can change only by discrete amounts like the bits of a computer. Distances, energy, and possibility time are quantized in our universe. * The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle also implies Interactions don't 'count' unless they affect some other piece of the system. Is the Universe doing called 'lazy evaluation' here? * In computer simulations, the criteria to achieve von Neumann stabilitiy is that no effect can propagate at a speed faster than the size step divided by the time step. Interactions in our universe are also limited by the speed of light. * Holographic Principle does away with spatial locality, drastically reducing the number of possible states our Universe can have. None of this makes sense unless the Universe is trying to minimize resource usage. * E=mc2 : mass and energy are two forms of the same thing. It a computer it's all bytes at it's simplest form.