http://www.lafayette.edu/about/news/2013/08/16/physicist-silas-beane-88-researches-simulated-reality/
I love articles like this. I’m always interesting in the similarity of physics and the expected architecture of computer / quantum systems. I remember reading about how in SecondLife there was this issue when that people who programmed in the virtual reality scripting language had to deal with different issues at a ‘micro’ or quantum level than they had to deal with at a ‘macro’ level. This was because time (as measured by tics or loops in the computer algs) would miss things when looking for precision at a micro level but not when computed at a macro level (think of darts going through a dart board, for example because the alg wanted to detect as close as possible to surface for a hit). This model (that we live in a simulated reality on a giant quantum computer) might help us start to predict future physical laws. Sent from Windows Mail
