Re:P=NP Problem Linked To The Quantum Nature Of The Universe
by danpalmer on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:57PM
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I wonder then how this reconciles with the theories that the universe is in fact being simulated in a computer.
It sounds like a crazy theory, and quite possibly is, but it's a thought experiment, or at least an idea that I've seen physicists come back to time and time again. Apparently it's a distinct possibility, and would actually fit very well with a few recent discoveries about the nature of fundamental laws. (Note I'm writing this from a layman's point of view, I know very little about this subject.)
This discovery, if true, might imply that, if the universe is being simulated in a computer, it might be a P≠NP might be a fundamental law of the meta-universe, or a property of the computer itself, maybe even an optimisation, and that over a certain size of object, it stops calculating quantum states.
This link might not exist, I might just be failing to understand the theories involved, but I find it an interesting thing to think about nonetheless.
It sounds like a crazy theory, and quite possibly is, but it's a thought experiment, or at least an idea that I've seen physicists come back to time and time again. Apparently it's a distinct possibility, and would actually fit very well with a few recent discoveries about the nature of fundamental laws. (Note I'm writing this from a layman's point of view, I know very little about this subject.)
This discovery, if true, might imply that, if the universe is being simulated in a computer, it might be a P≠NP might be a fundamental law of the meta-universe, or a property of the computer itself, maybe even an optimisation, and that over a certain size of object, it stops calculating quantum states.
This link might not exist, I might just be failing to understand the theories involved, but I find it an interesting thing to think about nonetheless.