Joel wrote: > > This may be true, but has anyone here (or anywhere else) ever > checked to see that we can't program the universe exactly with > simple algorithms? > > I think this is something new. (Check out what Stephen Wolfram has > been doing lately: http://www.wolframscience.com) > > Everyone's talking about "quantum consciousness" and other nebulous > words, but it seems no one has tried to build the universe from the > ground up - on absolute principles and no uncertainties. > > Now, I know I'm not asking everyone to give up their most cherished > beliefs and all their hard work forever. I'm just asking for > SOMEONE to stop and take a look with me to see if we haven't missed > something really simple - something so obviousthat everyone just > dismissed it without asking, "Why not?" > > Maybe it's not as hard as we think. > Maybe we CAN obtain some real, final answers. > It's just crazy enough to work! > > Joel
Interestingly 't Hooft (one of the Nobel-Prize winners of 1999) has formulated deterministic models that reduce to quantum mechanics when described statistically. See e.g. this article: ``How Does God Play Dice? (Pre-)Determinism at the Planck Scale��: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0104219 Saibal
