Re: Using Object Oriented Programming to revolutionize physics?

From:
Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
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Date:
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:03:47 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 1, 11:14 am, Michael Helland <mobyd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I've got an abstract idea for ya.

It sort of follows some of the ideas that Leibniz had:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz#Information_technology

Imagine using an object in a program to depict some fundamental
substance.

The fundamental substance isn't an atom, or a particle or boson or
quark, like electrons and photons.

But it has properties and methods that allow it to act and interact
with other objects.

Keeping in mind that it doesn't represent a physical object, what if
many of these interacting objects could demonstrate complexity that
resembles everyday objects?

A thermometer for instance. Simple mechanical things.

Or life. Could composite objects resembling plants, animals, and human
beings exist in the complexity of the interactions in the fundamental
objects?

Assuming so, we can start getting into the difficult parts.

Information science examines the processing of information in a
physical resource.

In this case all the properties of the objects compose the information
in the computer's physical resource, such as the RAM or on disk.

But we have artificial life, and artificial intelligence in that
information.

And if we have artificial human life, we have a human brain.

That virtual brain-like thing exists within the context of the
information in the computer's physical resource.

That virtual brain creates a new virtual resource for information, a
new type of information in its unique resource that exists in a unique
concept.

Within the neural pathways in the artificial intelligence arises a new
space, time, and even matter that's relative to the artificial
observer.

The electrons and photons we study in science exist as information in
the virtual resource.

Presumably, the information that arises from the virtual resource
exhibits quantum mechanics and general relativity.

This seems to agree with a general trend in physics today. Here is an
article that has gained some popularity:

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/archives/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html
<quote>
A New Theoryv of the Universe
Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the
equation
By Robert Lanza
</quote>

This is a multidisciplinary study that includes quantum mechanics,
general relativity, neuroscience, information science, and computing.

The last discipline meaning that us computer programmers have the
unique position of being able to intuit what many consider counter
intuitive, ideas that the physicists themselves are going to have a
very difficult time coming to grips with.

Here's a larger description of the main idea with a code example:

http://www.cloudmusiccompany.com/paper.htm


Have you ever played with Conway's "Game of Life"? It is a very simple
cellular automata simulation with surprisingly complex results.

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