Greetings! For discussions regarding Digital Physics and cellular automata. Regards, Joel Dobrzelewski...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Feb 25, 2000 6:39 am
We are not many here at digitalphysics@ (yet?), but I'll try this anyway. This also is Bcc: <cellular-automata@...>, which is largely dead/spam haven...
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rhodesr@...
Feb 27, 2000 8:16 pm
Glad the group is back on line. By way of introduction, I am posting my first comment, previously made directly to Joel, together with his reply. Joel -- ...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:30 am
http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22273 Random Reality Space and the material world could be created out of nothing but noise. That's the...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:07 am
Ugh.. It's hard not to react emotionally to this. This work is exactly the *opposite* of digital physics! Why use probability to generate the universe when...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:52 am
... Yes ;) ... I wouldn't say so, though the hypernet connectivity bothers me a bit. Otoh of what use is intuition reared on high-level artefacts when judging...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 3, 2000 11:45 am
... So are CA, in their pure form. It's true that we, as humans, cannot re-build the entire universe within the universe itself. Since we've gotten a late...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 3, 2000 1:47 pm
... Whoa... sorry. I swear I thought you said, "Their stuff is infinite". My mistake. But if their stuff is finite, then this only strengthens the argument...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 6, 2000 3:15 pm
Ok, upon closer inspection, there do appear to be a number of interesting features in the work of Cahill and Klinger (Random Reality...
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Ross Rhodes
RhodesR@...
Mar 9, 2000 3:55 am
Another word on Random Reality, this one by Edward Fredkin, from A New Cosmogony: "If we could look into a tiny region of space with a magic microscope, so ...
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Ross Rhodes
RhodesR@...
Mar 10, 2000 3:04 am
I read that Laurent Lafforgue has proved another part of Robert Langlands' conjecture. Has anybody thought about implications for digital physics or quantum...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 13, 2000 2:28 pm
... Hi Ross.. Is this article available on-line? I can't seem to find it. In the mean time, I suppose anyone could guess my response: I'm skeptical of the...
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Ross Rhodes
RhodesR@...
Mar 14, 2000 5:40 am
... <Snip> The blurb to which I was referring is not online at the Science site (I checked). It is at page 792 (vol 287, 4 February 2000) of the hardcopy. ...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 14, 2000 2:41 pm
Thanks for the links and text Ross. Wow - the mathematics here is clearly over my head. I don't think I can even begin to comment on it. I did follow most of...
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Jim Calfas
jim@...
Mar 15, 2000 6:36 am
Hi Ross and Joel... Although I mostly agree with Joel about building digital models "bottom up", I still think quantum mechanics (especially Heisenberg's...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@...
Mar 29, 2000 10:48 am
Cellular Automata becoming increasingly useful in modelling. http://physics.bu.edu/~bruceb/MolSim/...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Mar 29, 2000 11:14 am
Hello DP'ers. The following question deserves more explanation, but quite simply, I'm anxious to ask it: What are the fundamental differences (if any) among...
From: Rod Garcia <rgarcia@...> 9th International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics ... August 21st -- August 25th, 2000 La Fonda of...
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Ross Rhodes
RhodesR@...
Apr 2, 2000 12:28 am
... His CountryRhodes@... Mark ... visit <http://www.pipeline.com/+AH4-rhodesr/index.html> Ross Rhodes ... From: Tim Tyler <tt@...> ...
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Ross Rhodes
RhodesR@...
Apr 2, 2000 12:40 am
... His CountryRhodes@... Mark ... visit <http://www.pipeline.com/+AH4-rhodesr/index.html> Ross Rhodes ... From: baez@... (John Baez) ...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Apr 3, 2000 7:53 pm
Thanks for the info. Ross. I've been watching that discussion too since it seems to occasionally touch on topics relevant to Digital Physics. Unfortunately, I...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Apr 3, 2000 8:44 pm
Wow - you know how to find them Ross! ... Hey - that's us! ;) Joel...
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Ross Rhodes
rhodesr@...
Apr 4, 2000 12:39 am
Joel, thanks for the comments on my forwards. Baez is very well positioned to comment on the continuum question, being a prof. of mathematical physics. I am...
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jim@...
Apr 4, 2000 5:48 am
... Please forgive me for being so long winded, but I think what's going here is something pretty fundamental. The question is: what basic concepts - what...
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Seth Hoyt
seth@...
Apr 4, 2000 1:10 pm
I believe what Baez means by this statement is that in quantum mechanics, states can be superposed (added together) with a weighting called the amplitude. This...
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Joel Dobrzelewski
dobrzele@...
Apr 13, 2000 4:15 pm
A little late notice, but I ran across this post today... http://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/dls/fredkin.html (Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science) SCS...
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eugene.leitl@...
May 9, 2000 12:33 am
From: david mankins <dm@...> A scientist has devised a cellular automaton that indicates that things as stupid as molecules could self-organize and adapt...
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Dieter Gernert
t4141ax@...
Jun 8, 2000 8:13 am
Dear readers of digital physics mailing list, may I draw your attention to the following recent paper, which has very much to do with digital physics: D....
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Jun 15, 2000 11:58 am
Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the digitalphysics group: Do you believe the Universe is a cellular automaton (CA)? o Yes o No To vote,...
