Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky actions at a distance'

Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by tim333 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:30PM (#24767722)

If the universe is a mathematical object there being an infinity of universes isn't any more wasteful than there being an infinity of integers for example. From Occam's point of view it's simpler if all integers exist rather than there being a cap if that were even logically possible. So yeah go supermodel!

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Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by tabtab on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:37PM (#24767804)

Re: If the universe is a mathematical object...

Math is a modeling technique, not a "thing". To me it doesn't make sense to say the universe "is" math. Maybe it's a machine "running" math notation (programming code), but that's not the same as it "being" math.

(Is "God" the server admin?)

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Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by tim333 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:40PM (#24768640)

It's been hypothesised: "the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

not proven of course.

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Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by handol on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:54PM (#24772665)

Suppose God is running multiple identical instances of the universe on several machines. Are we in a particular one?

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Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by tabtab on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:45PM (#24780706)

We wouldn't know or care and it would make no difference. It only becomes an "issue" if there is a mutation or glitch that breaks symmetry.

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Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by Waterfall on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:47PM (#24767892)

The universe isn't mathematical, it is explained by math, a country is not Chinese because I wrote a tour guide in Chinese about it. Infinite universes isn't really applicable here, you're thinking of a growing block universe. A simpler point is a block universe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_ti...

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Re:Einstein's missed opportunity to rid us of 'spooky action... by Koshkin on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:17PM (#24772489)

But if Chinese was the only language (which is a more correct analogy), the country might in fact be Chinese.

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