A little bit of inifinity is all I need!
So it's been a busy week. But it was a good week. On Friday I had a presentation about God and infinite and math and all that jazz. I plan on putting up my notes on enosh, and later on putting all of my notes on enosh on the blog that I am going to serve up. But that's neither here nor there. After my presentation the professors and the other students and I had a discussion about the presentation and a few interesting points came out:
#1: Is the universe continuous, or as the EE's say, analog, like most of us assume?
#2: Is math descriptive or prescriptive?
#1 is a very interesting question which has intense implications. For example: if the universe is discrete, that is, digital, then it can put boxed up and put into a computer and calculated. Well, that is, if there were not the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. But nonetheless it could be done despite the HUP, since we could just use nondeterministic programming. It would just require more RAM. The only thing that is a problem there is that the RAM would need to be included in the model of the universe, and I am not so sure that a group of binary bits is smaller than the particle that they are representing (I am almost positive that they are physically larger). So really even if the world were discrete we would not be able to simulate it and predict the future, but theoretically we could.
As for #2, that looks like it's just a problem with my mind. I have always wondered why physics works and how God put the math there. But math just describes the world, as opposed to math instigating the world into action. But for real though? I mean, math is so perfect. Can the universe exist without math? I doubt it. Can math exist without the universe? I think so! But that does not mean that math is the cause of things. It's just a (n almost) perfect language. Weird.
#1: Is the universe continuous, or as the EE's say, analog, like most of us assume?
#2: Is math descriptive or prescriptive?
#1 is a very interesting question which has intense implications. For example: if the universe is discrete, that is, digital, then it can put boxed up and put into a computer and calculated. Well, that is, if there were not the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. But nonetheless it could be done despite the HUP, since we could just use nondeterministic programming. It would just require more RAM. The only thing that is a problem there is that the RAM would need to be included in the model of the universe, and I am not so sure that a group of binary bits is smaller than the particle that they are representing (I am almost positive that they are physically larger). So really even if the world were discrete we would not be able to simulate it and predict the future, but theoretically we could.
As for #2, that looks like it's just a problem with my mind. I have always wondered why physics works and how God put the math there. But math just describes the world, as opposed to math instigating the world into action. But for real though? I mean, math is so perfect. Can the universe exist without math? I doubt it. Can math exist without the universe? I think so! But that does not mean that math is the cause of things. It's just a (n almost) perfect language. Weird.