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Re:They're Made out of Meat by zingermc on Friday August 08, 2014 @08:49AM (#8152506)
Wanna know the real reason? C is just the maximum floating point value of the computer that our universe's simulation is running on. Similarly, the Planck length is the value closest to zero.
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Re:They're Made out of Meat by sergiosgc on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:07AM (#8152804)
I reasoned about it in the same vein but with a different approach. We are running in a discrete simulation. The most you can move is one space quantum per time tick. That speed is C.
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Re:They're Made out of Meat by outworlder on Friday August 08, 2014 @09:40AM (#8152680)
More likely, it is the maximum speed the physics engine can handle per tick.
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Re:They're Made out of Meat by zingermc on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:03AM (#8152782)
That's exactly my point. If the speed (= distance / tick) is represented by a float, then we can travel no faster than the max float value.
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Re:They're Made out of Meat by bentcorner on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:23AM (#8153224)
"3 x 10^8 m/s ought to be enough for anybody"
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Re:They're Made out of Meat by sidcool on Friday August 08, 2014 @09:07AM (#8152573)
That would perhaps be even more interesting!
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Re:They're Made out of Meat by laumars on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:31AM (#8152902)
That's beautifully put :)
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