Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable

Re:Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable by drewfis on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:37PM (#39801627)

Makes me wonder if there's even smaller building blocks of the universe. Smaller than Photons, Gluons, Neutrinos, Electrons, Quarks and we just can't 'zoom in' enough to know about them.

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Re:Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable by catlifeonmars on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:58PM (#39801810)

Does it matter, if they have no discernible difference or effect than our current “simpler” models?

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Re:Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable by OscarCunningham on Saturday March 23, 2024 @03:44PM (#39802605)

If our 'fundamental' physics is actually emergent from a lower layer then we might expect that our laws are actually leaky abstractions. Very occasionally things at the lower level will happen in an unusual way that causes the laws of physics to be broken at our level.

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Re:Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable by andoando on Saturday March 23, 2024 @09:03PM (#39804258)

That is in fact what quantum physics showed.

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Re:Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable by jordanpg on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:54PM (#39801768)

[Stephen Wolfram sits up.]

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