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Originally posted by Christopher Lord:
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Perhaps this belief is valid because if code has a creator, so can the universe.
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Yes, indeed. And we can deduce some things about both the coder and the implementation.
- The uncertainty principle. Position and momentum of particles are implemented as variable fields within a fixed length word; increase the precision of one and the precision of the other is reduced.
- Finite speed of light. A kludge to prevent overflow when adding velocities.
- Black holes. A goof. The coder didn't think to check for underflow when calculating distances in regions of high density.
- Hawking radiation. Loss of precision when using denormalised numbers just before underflow.
- Non-zero cosmological constant. Rounding errors accumulated in calculating large distances.
- Clairvoyance. The system is checkpointed every so often. Unfortunately, when the universe is restarted from a checkpoint some locations aren't cleared properly and contain information about the future left over from the previous run.
- Miracles. Adding a binary patch to a running universe.
[ July 01, 2002: Message edited by: KeithHarwood ]</p>
06-30-2002, 07:33 PM
