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Hello. This blog is about digital physics (DP), a fringe-but-not-fringe view of the fundamental physics of the universe that considers the physics of the very small to be ultimately discrete – both...
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Why The Big Bang? Part 1: Infinity
“Next contestant Sybil Fawlty from Torquay, special subject the bleeding obvious” - John Cleese, Fawlty Towers In these posts I want to present a line of reasoning that is an explanation of why this...
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Why The Big Bang? Part 2: Existence
“All is number” - Pythagorean School In Part 1 I attempted to present some of the philosophical reasons why we may think infinity is a pretty dodgy concept. I now want to address the...
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Why The Big Bang? Part 3: Networks
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” -...
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A Cool Digital Physics Blog
So far I’ve been pretty good at saying what I’m going to do: develop algorithms that show how particular aspects of physics can occur in a locally randomised discrete network. Well someone’s already...
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Higgs and the Luminiferous Aether
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them - J R R Tolkien Peter Higgs (* 1929) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The recent release of...
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The GZK Test of Whether We Are In a Simulation
The world of Digital Physics is generally immune from appearing in mainstream media. But some nights ago, during an insomnia induced late night TV viewing, on a mainstream news source (either BBC or Al...
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Life, The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and Everything
The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH) is a science philosophy that says that our universe is nothing more than a mathematical structure. It also says that all definable mathematical structures are...
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Emergence of Special Relativity from Causal Sets
Causal Set Theory (CST) is one of the current serious attempts at creating a discrete model of the fine level structure of spacetime. It relies on a small number of basic assumptions. It is accessible...
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It From Zip: How There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.
Here we are. How the hell did that happen? Why isn’t there just nothing? Humankind has pondered on this over millennia. Recently though, some new ideas have emerged from science philosophy. Bits of...
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