Interesting. It sounds a bit like Deutsche's Fabric of Reality. Re whether it had been posted before, there are hints of it in the Wired article I posted back on the 13th, copied below.
On 9/26/21 11:04 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.03902.pdf <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.03902.pdf> > should be good for a few rounds of riffs, > > hard to believe it hasn't turned up before, but google search says it's not > in my mail, > > On 9/13/21 1:23 PM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: >> So … What If Aliens’ Quantum Computers Explain Dark Energy? >> https://www.wired.com/story/so-what-if-aliens-quantum-computers-explain-dark-energy/ >> >> "Recently a consistent cosmology with no dark energy has been proposed by a >> large number of respected cosmologists, like Joe Silk and Subir Sarkar, who >> argue that if we live in a large region of empty space void of galaxies then >> we can do away with dark energy. Likewise, our aliens come from a region >> void of dark energy because this void represents a biosphere of >> computational activity. According to a detailed multidata analysis of the >> latest measurement of the cosmic microwave background, the Sloan Digital Sky >> Survey and type Ia supernovae observations, such a region exists. Working >> with my colleagues at Penn State and CERN, we were able to show that all >> that data is consistent with a region void of dark energy spanning some two >> hundred megaparsec. This is a huge region; for comparison, ten kiloparsec is >> about the radius of a typical spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way, and a >> parsec itself is already pretty big, at more than three light-years. So we >> at least have a spot where these aliens could live with their computers. >> Everywhere outside the aliens’ existence, where there are no computers, the >> dark energy would exist." >> -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
