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Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by shalmanese on Thursday April 16, 2009 @11:52AM (#565320)
Turing machines are constructed in a closed, static universe. This guy says that if you need to deal with a source of changing data, turing results don't apply. This is both obvious and important to state, although not with as much verbiage.
Re:Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universa... by jerf on Thursday April 16, 2009 @12:31PM (#565381)
Expanding on that, it should also be pointed out that this is well-known as being among the list of assumptions that prevent Turing Machines from working in the real world. We speak of "steps", but they do not have any actual relationship to "time". The tape has no obvious relationship to "space", either.

So, right off in the first sentence "I have recently shown that the concept of a Universal Computer cannot be realized.", I thought "well, it's hardly like that's a challenge..."

There's actually some interesting theory here, I think, but it's only obscured by being wrapped in rhetoric about Church-Turing being wrong and such. All mathematical theorems include a set of assumptions, and it's not news that if you change the truth of the assumptions the theorems may stop holding.