Something to which causality didn't apply. Personally, I'm a fan of Brane Theory.
If universes are thick as blackberries on the ground, then it's not a terribly great surprise that we wound up in one that looks like this. After all, we require conditions such as these to exist, and wouldn't be doing that in any manifold that didn't allow for it.
Existential Multidimensional Superpowered Ferrets! Our reality generated from the really shiny bits of primal aether they stuffed under the Cosmic Couch O'Dreams and Doom.
Bless me, what DO they teach them at these schools?
Being a monotheist, I've tended to not ponder the causes of God, simply treating that as information I lack the ability to estimate, freeing myself to attempt to ascertain what little CAN be extrapolated. An exercise in finding out enough about God to know just how little anyone does or even can.
My root assumption is a metaphor that wasn't available to the ancient Hebrews, Janists, et c.:
God has a computer. On this computer runs the universe.
One can then attempt to estimate the level that God is operating at by determining just how much computational horsepower is needed to run the universe. It's possible that this might even be able to generate some hypotheses, such as who do we have a single arrow of time. Do we inherit it from the realm of God?
It certainly could provide an impetus to try to run a simulation of the standard model down to the last particle. Don't forget gravity. For a unified theory attempt I'm personally leaning towards loop quantum gravity.
Any optimizations to what the computer is understood to be whose computational artifacts duplicate knows complications of the physics of our universe are an obvious bonus.
Naturally, as I slowly and smugly ponder this, somebody does a cartoon that shows a solution to my parameters that I hadn't considered that means that I need to make additional assumptions to be able to measure God by measuring the universe:
There's also another angle I've been pondering. Gregory Chaitin (warning: tubs of large graphics) has done a nice job of opening the rift opened by Cantor with a large crowbar and seemingly revealed that our reality that appears to be a veneer of order resting on chaos, is itself underpinned by ever-increasing and undefinable randomness. Perhaps God somehow appeared in the randomness, pieced together some correlations, and enabled something as orderly as a universe to exist?
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Date: 2009-08-13 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-13 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-13 12:52 pm (UTC)If universes are thick as blackberries on the ground, then it's not a terribly great surprise that we wound up in one that looks like this. After all, we require conditions such as these to exist, and wouldn't be doing that in any manifold that didn't allow for it.
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Date: 2009-08-13 01:00 pm (UTC)Bless me, what DO they teach them at these schools?
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Date: 2009-08-13 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-14 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
My root assumption is a metaphor that wasn't available to the ancient Hebrews, Janists, et c.:
God has a computer. On this computer runs the universe.
One can then attempt to estimate the level that God is operating at by determining just how much computational horsepower is needed to run the universe. It's possible that this might even be able to generate some hypotheses, such as who do we have a single arrow of time. Do we inherit it from the realm of God?
It certainly could provide an impetus to try to run a simulation of the standard model down to the last particle. Don't forget gravity. For a unified theory attempt I'm personally leaning towards loop quantum gravity.
Any optimizations to what the computer is understood to be whose computational artifacts duplicate knows complications of the physics of our universe are an obvious bonus.
Naturally, as I slowly and smugly ponder this, somebody does a cartoon that shows a solution to my parameters that I hadn't considered that means that I need to make additional assumptions to be able to measure God by measuring the universe:
http://xkcd.com/505/...
There's also another angle I've been pondering. Gregory Chaitin (warning: tubs of large graphics) has done a nice job of opening the rift opened by Cantor with a large crowbar and seemingly revealed that our reality that appears to be a veneer of order resting on chaos, is itself underpinned by ever-increasing and undefinable randomness. Perhaps God somehow appeared in the randomness, pieced together some correlations, and enabled something as orderly as a universe to exist?