Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 1 week agoThe paper makes the argument that the universe we live in is mathematically uncomputable. No algorithm can describe it. There’s no mathematical formula we can use to compute the universe as it is.
If this is the case, then we don’t live inside a computer. Something more than pure computation is required.
Now their argument is that quantum gravity is the thing that makes the universe uncomputable. I’m not sure how valid this part of their argument is.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
SO many assumptions in that statement
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 1 week ago
Well, ”computer” in the mathematical sense is well defined of what it can and cannot do. The limit is the halting problem or equivalent problems.
The question is: is there some equivalent to the halting problem in the real universe? If that’s the case, then there’s no algorithm you can use to describe the entire universe.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It is in this universe. Who’s to say the same holds remotely true in a different universe that may have entirely different laws of physics?
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 1 week ago
In that case it must also have different laws of mathematics for it to work.