> jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com wrote:
[CLIP]
> Its been speculated that reality is, at the base, a very simple cellular
> automata with a set number of states and transition rules. This very
> well might be true, it doesn't take terribly complex rulesets to give
> rise to /very/ complex behaviour at a sufficently macro level. (See the
> SF novel PERMUTATION CITY for a fiction author's take on the
> possibilities.)
That's precisely the difficulty in working General Relativity
calculations on a decent scale: all of the complexity is in the
interactions. It doesn't matter whether the base form is discretized
[cellular automata] or continuum space [current standard paradigm].
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