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Random remarks - Paul's blog

Archive for the ‘Random remarks’ Category

PostHeaderIcon Buddhism

Bhudda hotdow vendor“Make me one with everything”  …

 … requests the Buddhist monk

 … from the hotdog vendor.

PostHeaderIcon Highschool math .. or .. The Power of Nothing

math dummiesWe all know from our highschool math classes that:

1. x0 = 1 for any value of x (not very intuitive, but easy to prove)

and

2. 0x = 0 for any value of x

Considering rule 1 and 2: what, then, is the value of

00?

PostHeaderIcon A new day .. a proposal

SpursI’d like to propose we no longer call Thursday Thursday.

As of this week, let’s call the day preceding Friday “Spursday”!

Way to “GO SPURS”!

PostHeaderIcon Bad Beat Wife

True Story!

My wife played poker the other day. Texas holdem.

She got AA in the hole.

At the river she got her fourth ace!

She got beat by a royal flush.

I’m not making this up.

I saw it happen.

PostHeaderIcon Tick Tock

PlanckModern digital computers are clock driven.

That means that there is a clock inside your computer that ticks.  Tick, tock, tick, tock …

And at every tick (and tock) the computer DOES something. It executes an instruction (or, to be fair, in modern pipelined processors, an atomized part thereof).

From a computer program’s point of view it’s without meaning to ask what happens between tick and tock.

If the clock would miss a beat, there is, in principle (meaning, without help of external circuitry), no way for the computer program to detect that. It could have been stalled for YEARS, and it wouldn’t know it.

It’s a consequence of being a ‘digital’ computer, in which everything happens in discrete steps.

This in contrast with our own world where everything is, as we call it, analog … where everything is smooth and connected. Where there isn’t an ‘atom’ of time, and where even the tiniest piece of ‘length’ can be divided by 2.

Or is it (time)? And can it (length)?

What if there IS a smallest unit of time? And lenght? Units for which the question “what is smaller than that” is like asking “what is north of the North Pole”? If that was the case … dang .. then we WOULD be living in a digital world after all. That would almost sound as if reality as we know it, IS computer generated! As if we were living, and experiencing life, in a holographic environment simulator .. we could be someone’s misguided highschool project.

Now … guess what!

Yes … there IS a smallest unit of time. And length.

Anyone familiar with Quantum Physics knows them: They’re called Planck-time and Planck length.

This begs the question: then  … WHAT is reality?

This opens a new category for my blog, called ‘Quantum Reality’: I will soon post more on that.

But for now (leaves holodeck) .. “Computer: save program!”

 

 


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