Discrete vs continuous space - Stephen Wolfram

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There’s a better way to formulate the problem which he’s mentioned before…but it’s the fact that even if the universe is discrete we can only perceive it as continuous because space itself gives distance it’s meaning. More formally, we can only describe our universe through causal event chains.

There’s a thought experiment that goes something like this. Alice and Bob are in a room where Alice has a button. When she presses it, time stops for Bob…and the question is what does Bob actually perceive about the world when she presses the button? Well Bob actually doesn’t perceive Alice hitting the button at all…because time is what gives Bob information about the world in the first place. So Alice pressing the button perceives discrete chunks of time, where Bob can only perceive it as continuous.

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salmanuel
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Question is, is ultimate truth discrete or continuous?

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Why do you think pi is not finite? Space is discrete and you cannot draw a perfect circle. This is one good evidence.

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10 to the minus 200.???!!!! .dude has never actually learned any science

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