Brent Meeker skrev: > Torgny Tholerus wrote: >> >> That is exactly what I wanted to say. You don't need to have a complete >> description of arithmetic. Our universe can be described by doing a >> number of computations from a finite set of rules. (To get to the >> current view of our universe you have to do about 10**60 computations >> for every point of space...) > > How did you arrive at that number? > It is the number of Planck times since the birth of Universe. The age of Universe is 13,7 billion years, number of seconds in a year is 31 million, and the Planck time is 5,4 * 10**-44 seconds. That gives 13,7*10**9 * 31*10**6 / (5,4*10**-44) = 8*10**60.
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