Diokine
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Yesterday Steven Wolfram published an article entitled "Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful." In it he describes some of the work he has been doing for the past 50 years, on a subject called cellular automata. Basically cellular automata are systems that - from a very simple set of rules - can evolve to remarkably complex manifestations. He has recently started work on this again and has made major breakthroughs, all in a very short period of time. Please follow the link and read.
I Never Expected This
The article describes the concepts of hypergraphs, abstract relations between abstract elements. It goes on to describe the results of the evolution of systems from different sets of rules, from the simplest ternary (three part) self-loop, to sets of rules defined at random. It then goes on to attempt a definition of what "space" actually is, in the context of a field metric like Euclidean or Riemannian geometry ("flat" or "curved" space.)
The article continues expansion and eventually derives Einstein's special relativity, including curvature tensors, along with the Feynman path integrals of quantum mechanics. In my opinion, the ideas expressed here are a huge deal. The concepts discussed within will allow us to understand relationships in a fundamentally different way. Progress in theoretical physics over the last 50 years has stalled entirely, and I think it's because we haven't been asking the right questions. We haven't been asking the right questions because fundamentally we had a complete misunderstanding between the relationships of elements.
Once we begin to understand discrete temporal circuits, causal relationships, and how space is rendered, things like time, energy, and mass will be much different concepts. Turbulence and temporal decoherence will be better understood. Ultimately, I believe the information this article is describing may lead to an undoing of reality, or loss of the cosmological dialectic. I think this is the goal of the beast and is described as the abomination of desolation in the book of Daniel. Heed this warning - human thought and will is not God, no matter our level of understanding. We may become intellectually advanced enough to potently alter reality with our thoughts. We may have sufficiently advanced technology to apparently remove all sources of suffering from our lives. Take care that you are not deceived. Christ said "love your enemies," anti-christ says "I have no enemies." Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and the number is hexocentrum hexodecum hex.
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I Never Expected This
The article describes the concepts of hypergraphs, abstract relations between abstract elements. It goes on to describe the results of the evolution of systems from different sets of rules, from the simplest ternary (three part) self-loop, to sets of rules defined at random. It then goes on to attempt a definition of what "space" actually is, in the context of a field metric like Euclidean or Riemannian geometry ("flat" or "curved" space.)
Isn’t this strange? We have a rule that’s just specifying how to rewrite pieces of an abstract hypergraph, with no notion of geometry, or anything about 3D space. And yet it produces a hypergraph that’s naturally laid out as something that looks like a 3D surface.
And this is basically how I think space in the universe works. Underneath, it’s a bunch of discrete, abstract relations between abstract points. But at the scale we’re experiencing it, the pattern of relations it has makes it seem like continuous space of the kind we’re used to. It’s a bit like what happens with, say, water. Underneath, it’s a bunch of discrete molecules bouncing around. But to us it seems like a continuous fluid.
Needless to say, people have thought that space might ultimately be discrete ever since antiquity. But in modern physics there was never a way to make it work—and anyway it was much more convenient for it to be continuous, so one could use calculus. But now it’s looking like the idea of space being discrete is actually crucial to getting a fundamental theory of physics.
The article continues expansion and eventually derives Einstein's special relativity, including curvature tensors, along with the Feynman path integrals of quantum mechanics. In my opinion, the ideas expressed here are a huge deal. The concepts discussed within will allow us to understand relationships in a fundamentally different way. Progress in theoretical physics over the last 50 years has stalled entirely, and I think it's because we haven't been asking the right questions. We haven't been asking the right questions because fundamentally we had a complete misunderstanding between the relationships of elements.
Once we begin to understand discrete temporal circuits, causal relationships, and how space is rendered, things like time, energy, and mass will be much different concepts. Turbulence and temporal decoherence will be better understood. Ultimately, I believe the information this article is describing may lead to an undoing of reality, or loss of the cosmological dialectic. I think this is the goal of the beast and is described as the abomination of desolation in the book of Daniel. Heed this warning - human thought and will is not God, no matter our level of understanding. We may become intellectually advanced enough to potently alter reality with our thoughts. We may have sufficiently advanced technology to apparently remove all sources of suffering from our lives. Take care that you are not deceived. Christ said "love your enemies," anti-christ says "I have no enemies." Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and the number is hexocentrum hexodecum hex.
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The speed of light c in our toy system is defined by the maximum rate at which information can propagate, which is determined by the rule, and in the case of this rule is one character per step. And in terms of this, we can then say that our foliation corresponds to a speed 0.3 c. But now we can look at the amount of time dilation, and it’s exactly the amount y=1/(sqrt(1-(v^2/c^2)) that relativity says it should be.