It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end

Re:It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end by zuminator on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:42AM (#30611588)

Not saying you're wrong in the slightest, but why would our universe be like a computer? When our understanding of the universe was very primitive we thought everything was alive (animism). Then a little more technology and we thought the universe was like an orrery or a clock (mechanism)[0]. Then a little more and we think it was like a computer (turingism?) Occasionally you'll hear it's like a hologram, a simulation (what's it simulating?), a graph [1], or some other faddish concept.

We just like to make metaphors to put this thing in a box that we can't understand. But perhaps at its most fundamental level it will defy comprehension or even definition.

[0] In the philosophical sense; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)

[1] https://syncedreview.com/2020/04/17/stephen-wolfram-the-path...

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Re:It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:47AM (#30611936)

What's the difference between a clock and a computer? And there's no difference between computer and computer simulation.

Being a hologram is something I see as a significantly different type of comment. That's about how a sphere of space is mathematically equivalent to a flat 2d shell using equivalent but warped physics. It doesn't change anything about the nature of the universe except sort of the number of dimensions. And it's orthogonal to those ideas.

I'm not sure how to categorize the graph thing but it's not widespread at all.

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Re:It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end by Zamicol on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:30AM (#30611853)

> why would our universe be like a computer?

Because information is fundamental.

Computers just so happen to be our best tools in the information domain.

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