Nov 8 2012
In a universe as a quantum computer hypothesis, what happens when you virtualize enough layers? Slowdown of the local space-time? Wouldn't time flow at different rates in different parts of it, depending on the content? How would we notice, since time is an emergent property of the particles? Speed of light keeps a tight lid on those problems, possibly. Almost like a signal propagation limit to protect coherence? And there's this interesting speculation that the speed of light is dropping, extremely slowly (comments please, physicists?) Wouldn't this be an interesting way to understand things? The simulation spacetime is expanding and we need to keep everything synced up, so slow down the flow of information across the system, as there's some kind of (possibly) fundamental information density constant beyond which either you "stretch" more space to get out of an intolerable condition (Big Bang inflation?), slow down calculat
ion (universe-self-computed) time (but not "actual" time) , that sort of thing.
Possibly a similar way to how the brain works? Different pieces work at different speeds, but we're set to a more or less uniform "clockwork", so it doesn't matter. It's like trying to explain to a building how a building sliding door sensor detects at 200ms response time while the air conditioner does it at 50hz or something. In the end, the building is built for *us*, 0.25-0.5sec response time. So it's all fine.
Then, after all, matter isn't too concentrated (excluding less known phenomena like black holes, dark matter & energy?)
Possibly a similar way to how the brain works? Different pieces work at different speeds, but we're set to a more or less uniform "clockwork", so it doesn't matter. It's like trying to explain to a building how a building sliding door sensor detects at 200ms response time while the air conditioner does it at 50hz or something. In the end, the building is built for *us*, 0.25-0.5sec response time. So it's all fine.
Then, after all, matter isn't too concentrated (excluding less known phenomena like black holes, dark matter & energy?)
Everything seems to "revolve" around information. hah.
