I have a draft of a discrete model of quantum mechanics that I am working on. However, it's a bit sloppy and hand-wavy at spots. I'm only passing it around...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Feb 28, 2010 7:31 pm
I had the opportunity to look at the builtuniverse blog and I also downloaded the relevant paper from ArXiv. To my opinion, digital physics has a long way to...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Feb 28, 2010 8:56 pm
... I disagree. I think there is indeed such a thing as the real foundation of physics, and it will not be possible to express it with differing subjective ...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 1, 2010 4:09 pm
... Being it more "low-level" does not make it more "real" but rather more devoid of any ontological substance. ... Από: Eray Ozkural <examachine@...>...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Mar 1, 2010 4:45 pm
Well, bit remains an ontological abstraction, although I think it will be necessary to describe the computing *architecture*. Working in an abstract model of...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Mar 1, 2010 5:25 pm
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:23 AM, theophanes raptis ... Indeed, digital metaphysics is still embrionic. But quantum mechanical descriptions of systems are...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 2, 2010 1:21 am
I'm a little nervous about sending out this draft at such a rough stage, in which there may be some gaps in logic and I probably have to fix up the + and - and...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Mar 2, 2010 1:38 pm
Bravo Bram, I did not read your paper deep enough to see the errors. It seems to me to be highly relevant work generally well presented. I cuncurred...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 3, 2010 1:02 am
Jim, thank you for your kind words on my work in progress. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it"--Yogi Berra. My knee jerk reaction has been that nature...
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agdlamb
Mar 3, 2010 1:25 am
Hi Joel, You quite rightly asked for specifics. I have added a post outlining some of my results to the blog. More will follow. Thanks for your interest. Alex...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Mar 3, 2010 3:19 pm
1 pixel to the right and 2 to the left is an explicit reality, not an implicit one. Implicitly they must be equal but explicitly there may missing information...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 3, 2010 11:31 pm
Dear Bram/ friends I read the paper with interest and I am still checking the references too. What seems more interesting to me is the kind of "dimensionality...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 5, 2010 4:57 am
Thank you for interest in my paper. I also find the "dimensionality reduction" a very interesting aspect of the model. In fact, it was only in the past few...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 5, 2010 11:58 pm
Dear Bram The reason I asked is that in general, a string substitution system can be classified according to certain mathematical criteria if we can accurately...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 6, 2010 12:04 am
Dear Bram I made a simulation of some incomplete substitution rules with the 2nd technique that I explained in my previous mail including your rule. There seem...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 6, 2010 2:04 pm
Just finished the sim. with the combined triple of {X,Y,Z} operators using only the definitions in Bram's paper. Fixed a minor bug and also let the boundary...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 6, 2010 2:05 pm
This is interesting. Thanks for having a look at some of the implications of the model. You are quite right that I mean case (B) by your definitions. The ...
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agdlamb
Mar 6, 2010 2:08 pm
Hi, I'm delighted that dialog on this group has become so active. I've looked at Bram's paper and unfortunately lack some of the necessary background to be...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 7, 2010 1:39 am
You are quite right. I had originally started looking at network models and I've tried to adapt these ideas to networks without much progress. However, one...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 7, 2010 1:39 am
That looks really amazing. I have one confusion though, which is that I'd expect motion both to the left and right (by construction), yet the diagonals all...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 7, 2010 1:39 am
I see your point. Let me explain you the reason for this programming exercise. It is certainly not for getting some fancy pictures or even diagrams however...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 7, 2010 1:45 pm
I performed the same simulation with a single particle as an initial condition ( 010 in the middle of the string) and the problem was immediately revealed. The...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 7, 2010 1:49 pm
Well, in constructing the model I have come from a philosophical standpoint which may be similar in some ways to yours and to Zuse/Fredkin but may be different...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 7, 2010 3:01 pm
Actually I am not proclaiming the Fredkin - Zuse standpoint to be the ultimate truth which I cannot prove but as a big unknown which would have very serious...
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Jim Whitescarver
jimscarver
Mar 7, 2010 3:48 pm
We must credit Feynman with the notion that the quantum may be understood as computing. Ed contributed and promoted the notion of reversible universal logic. ...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 7, 2010 4:22 pm
I think Theophanes has simply misinterpreted the rules of the manuscript. They were designed to be unambiguous as to when to apply and to be reversible for...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 8, 2010 3:57 am
Ok, I fixed a minor bug in my program too! ( http://www.bramboroson.com/xyz.pro) The attached evolution image has been fixed too. Note the model is not a...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 8, 2010 1:20 pm
Well, though I m no native IDL "speaker" I can clearly see where a major difference certainly is. You use a whole array of rule pointers (or indices if you...
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Bram Boroson
BramBoro
Mar 8, 2010 2:42 pm
No, I am not applying different rules to different sites. What I do in the code is scan through to determine where the replacements will occur and then make...
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theophanes raptis
t_raptis2005
Mar 8, 2010 8:25 pm
So the array named "rules" just stores subsequent changes of the rule index and plays no other role during the computation? ... Από: Bram Boroson...
