The planck length and planck constant are both ultimate computational constraints on physical interactions, with planck length being the smallest meaningful scale, planck time being the smallest meaningful interval (universal framerate), and plancks constant being both combined to tell us about limits to how fast things can compute at the smallest meaningful distance steps of interaction, and ultimate bounds on how much energy we can put into physical computing.
The word “meaningful” does a lot of heavy lifting there. What does that mean? Do things which exceed the limit become meaningless? Because I was thinking, since we cannot know the future, as best as we could ever do is to approach infinitely close to the future, but never actually pass it*, because it hasn’t happened yet, and thus is unknowable. Like an event horizon. Not only on the macroscopic, but also microscopic scale there seems to be a limit beyond which all inquiry, or escape as it were, becomes possible as a matter of some sort of gravitational geometry.
Again, I want to stress I have no idea, I’m just an enthusiast so sorry if my musings make no sense, I appreciate a lot you taking your time with me and all of us to talk about this, so I’m just happy to be here.
Thanks for the cool graphics, they make sense!
*Just like you can’t escape the singularity once you’re bound. Same same but different! A transistor flipping a bit is a calculation.
A transistor flipping a bit is a calculation.
It is an “action”, a passage of time, an action in time, quantified somehow, a single unit of the passage of time? Like a photon is both a wave and a particle but neither and both at the same time? So how does one measure that, and more importantly, what goes on in the immeasurable space meanwhile? Particles jumping in between space and time and shit, everywhere, nowhere. The Universe is a very naughty place and has a gambling problem.
is a calculation
The word “is”, is a problematic word. Are things only calculations? Who is doing the calculating? What is calculating what? Calculation implies intention, as far as I am concerned. Or inevitability! Some form of mechanical causal chain that just plays out the movements it is predestined to play out and free will is an illusion which it very well might be, I don’t know where I was quite going with this, we should start a podcast I’m sure we’d be great.
The neurons in my brain firing to select the next word in this sentence sequence from the probabilistic sea of all things I could possibly say, is a calculation.
I hear ya!
Pascals triangle directly governs the amount of microstates a finite computational phase space can access as well as the distribution of order and entropy within that phase space.
I see!
Each microstate is statistically probability weighted based on its entropy/order. Entropy is a kind of ‘information-theoretic weight’ property that affects actualization probability of that microstate based on location in pascals triangle
The future can be predicted? To what degree of certainty? Can it be fully predicted?
the planck length or at a time interval smaller than planck time will cost more energy than the universe allows in one area
Fair enuf.
Sounds kind of like an event horizon. Like. You know, if you want to travel faster than light, you need infinite energy to get there. Or something like that. I get the feeling that the Universe is simultaneously the largest and the smallest thing that exists. Kind of a weird position to be in when you think about it, because the Universe is infinitely vast, but it is also infinitely small, down to quarks, bosons, or strings, or whatever. Like it’s, well, expanding, elastically, in both directions at once. Would you agree?
actualized bit of distinction
Mhm. Mmyes. Quite so, quite so.
Our ability to talk about abstractions is tied to how complex they are to abstract about/model in our mind.
Cool.
The cool thing is language evolves as our understanding does so we can convey novel new concepts or perspectives that didn’t exist before.
Is it enough to express it all? What would that mean? If we knew all the laws, would we be able to perfectly predict the future?
The word “meaningful” does a lot of heavy lifting there. What does that mean? Do things which exceed the limit become meaningless? Because I was thinking, since we cannot know the future, as best as we could ever do is to approach infinitely close to the future, but never actually pass it*, because it hasn’t happened yet, and thus is unknowable. Like an event horizon. Not only on the macroscopic, but also microscopic scale there seems to be a limit beyond which all inquiry, or escape as it were, becomes possible as a matter of some sort of gravitational geometry.
Again, I want to stress I have no idea, I’m just an enthusiast so sorry if my musings make no sense, I appreciate a lot you taking your time with me and all of us to talk about this, so I’m just happy to be here.
Thanks for the cool graphics, they make sense!
*Just like you can’t escape the singularity once you’re bound. Same same but different! A transistor flipping a bit is a calculation.
It is an “action”, a passage of time, an action in time, quantified somehow, a single unit of the passage of time? Like a photon is both a wave and a particle but neither and both at the same time? So how does one measure that, and more importantly, what goes on in the immeasurable space meanwhile? Particles jumping in between space and time and shit, everywhere, nowhere. The Universe is a very naughty place and has a gambling problem.
The word “is”, is a problematic word. Are things only calculations? Who is doing the calculating? What is calculating what? Calculation implies intention, as far as I am concerned. Or inevitability! Some form of mechanical causal chain that just plays out the movements it is predestined to play out and free will is an illusion which it very well might be, I don’t know where I was quite going with this, we should start a podcast I’m sure we’d be great.
I hear ya!
I see!
The future can be predicted? To what degree of certainty? Can it be fully predicted?
Fair enuf.
Sounds kind of like an event horizon. Like. You know, if you want to travel faster than light, you need infinite energy to get there. Or something like that. I get the feeling that the Universe is simultaneously the largest and the smallest thing that exists. Kind of a weird position to be in when you think about it, because the Universe is infinitely vast, but it is also infinitely small, down to quarks, bosons, or strings, or whatever. Like it’s, well, expanding, elastically, in both directions at once. Would you agree?
Mhm. Mmyes. Quite so, quite so.
Cool.
Is it enough to express it all? What would that mean? If we knew all the laws, would we be able to perfectly predict the future?