Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space

Re:Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space by nitrogen on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:24PM (#26507164)

You should read Anathem or Permutation City some time.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space by websitejanitor on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:17PM (#26507654)

I have read Anathem. It's math as occult magic riffing on harry potter.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space by nitrogen on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:20PM (#26516701)

Pretty much anything can be dismissed with an adlib of the form "It's [boring subject] as [thing I don't like] riffing on [some other thing]." It never captures the nuance, or why X as Y riffing on Z might still be interesting or enlightening.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space by aeneasmackenzie on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:37PM (#26507283)

What will he get from Permutation City? It's a work of fiction, entirely supposition.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space by xwolfi on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:34PM (#26509097)

But it helps you realize there's nothing obvious about reality. We can question everything, even that maybe we're experiencing reality in a time based manner due to a fluke but theres actually no evolution - we're a static map of space time, and us idiots pretend we evolve and change direction.

[ Parent | on HN ]