Re:Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is...
by wongarsu on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:09PM
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You could have an incredibly simple universe generator that just produces universes with random laws of physics and random initial conditions. From our human point of view that's indistinguishable from a highly sophisticated universe generator, since we can only observe the successes (or rather only one, that by our definition is a success)
I like your line of thinking and I'm actually quite excited about this recent shift in physics to a more information-theoretic line of inquiry.
Is it fair to state a corollary of your question this way? Given a complete description of some hypothesized universe/multiverse generator (essentially the next layer down that we are actively trying to discover), the Kolmogorov complexity (or some variation of K-Complexity) of this description must be greater than the K-complexity of any generated universe.
In my view, it would be very weird if this were not true. And (to me) it would be even weirder if this K-complexity was some large number but still less than infinity.