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Sep 25, 2023 · In a 2020 paper, he suggested that the universe “is composed of a set of partial views of itself” and that “conscious perceptions are aspects of some views”—a perspective that he says ...
- What Is Formal, and What Is Actualized?
- Is The Universe Inevitable For Us?
- The Laws of The Rulial Universe
- From Formal Inevitability to Actuality
- Our Experience of The Universe
- Where Does Everything Come from?
- Is This The only Universe?
- Why This Universe?
- Prime Movers and The Path from Abstraction to Abstraction
- The Relation to Mathematics
Why does the universe exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are old and fundamental questions that one might think would be firmly outside the realm of science. But to my surprise I’ve recently realized that our Physics Projectmay shed light on them, and perhaps even show us the way to answers. We can view the ultimate goal of ou...
There are an infinite number of possible programs that one can abstractly define. But we might assume that when it comes to representing our universe there’s just a particular one that gets picked out. In other words, that in the computational universe of all possible programs, there’s a specifically selected program that our physical universe foll...
As we work towards the question of why the universe exists, we need to talk about another formal, scientific result. We said above that our underlying rule is used wherever it applies in the hypergraph. And that doing this gives us a structure that we read as following relativity and quantum mechanics. But so far we’re still assuming that there’s s...
The set of all possible rules is something purely formal—and something that in some sense has no structure. But what we’ve discovered is that from the formal computational process of applying these rules we inevitably get structure. And if we think about how an observer like us embedded within this system perceives what’s going on, we conclude that...
I’ve made an argument for why it’s inevitable that the whole rulial universe exists. But what about our particular perception of the universe? Well, that perception is in some sense constructed by us. We are for example picking particular reference frames in which to organize our view of what’s happening in the universe. In the end, the result of o...
Closely related to the question of why the universe exists is why there is something rather than nothing. And what we can now say is that there is something because—essentially as a matter of definition—all possible formal rules inevitably in some abstract sense exist. The science says that if one applies these rules then eventually they build up t...
If the universe were based on a particular underlying rule there would seem to be no reason why there shouldn’t be other universes based on other rules. But an initially quite surprising implication of our approach is that actually the universe is in effect based on all formally possible rules. And a consequence of this is that there can only be on...
Why did we get this universe, with its detailed features, and not another? In the past we might have assumed that this involved arbitrariness in the creation or setup of the universe itself. And indeed endless mythologies describe mechanisms by which choices about the universe might have been made. In recent times it’s also been common in some circ...
In a sense the question of why the universe exists is all about why anything is “actualized”. It’s one thing to say that the universe can be represented by formal rules; it’s another to say that those rules are “actualized”. And many past analyses have concluded that there has to be some kind of “prime mover” that “breathes reality” into the formal...
See also:The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics (March 7, 2022) Most people would view it as self-evident that the physical universe exists. But the question of whether mathematics “intrinsically exists as a definite thing” has been debated since at least Plato. One view of mathematics is that...
May 19, 2023 · From this perspective, the passing of time is not only intrinsic to the evolution of life or our experience of the Universe. It is also the ever-moving material fabric of the Universe itself. Time is an object. It has a physical size, like space. And it can be measured at a molecular level in laboratories.
Unlike dark matter, dark energy is not related to matter or gravitational forces, but it's a property of space itself. Imagine the universe as a balloon. Dark matter is like the balloon's material, affecting its shape, while dark energy is like the air being pumped into it.
Aug 27, 2017 · Is the universe a giant hologram inside a supercomputer? Getty Images. If the nature of reality is in fact reducible to information itself, that implies a conscious mind on the receiving end, to ...
The universe contains all the energy and matter there is. Much of the observable matter in the universe takes the form of individual atoms of hydrogen, which is the simplest atomic element, made of only a proton and an electron (if the atom also contains a neutron, it is instead called deuterium). Two or more atoms sharing electrons is a molecule.
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1 day ago · The Steady State theory is based on the perfect cosmological principle that the universe does not evolve over time. By the 1970s, Hoyle’s model of an infinitely old and infinitely constant universe was no longer accepted. Hoyle himself opposed this theory and came up with the term to mock the idea that the universe had a sudden beginning.
