Digital physics

Re:Digital physics by AsymetricCom on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @06:44AM (#6165799)

hasnt this line of philosophy been logically killed by quantum physics? Also digits are purely human concept.

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Re:Digital physics by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:11AM (#6166329)

Aren't "digital" and "quantum" two names for the same concept?

(But, no, quantum physics didn't settle on the quantization of all data.)

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Re:Digital physics by pivnicek on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @08:25AM (#6166145)

I'm not sure if a digital universe would necessarily equate to a knowable universe.

My main point of disagreement with the philosophy would lie in the ultimate weakness inherent to a digital explanation: the infinite points in between.

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Re:Digital physics by kaoD on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:33PM (#6167550)

Which infinite points?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

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Re:Digital physics by flumbaps on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @08:34AM (#6166184)

No, not really, quantum physics could be simulated using symbolic computation. Digits are not a purely human concept. They belong to mathematics, which is something that humans uncover, not invent.

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Re:Digital physics by AsymetricCom on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:37AM (#6172086)

I'm not really of persuasion that Math is the only way to understand and predict the universe.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/is-mathematics....

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