Piers Antony wrote a novel some years ago about the possible
ramifications of an omniscient observation device capable of resolving a
one way transfer of information (viewed in a multimedia format) of any
event at any magnification anywhere/when in space-time (in this
universe). His concept depended on a hypothetical information bearing
particle which was analogous to a tachyon/neutrino sort of a thing.

But I've recently realized that if you had enough hi-rez Qbits you
could, if you had the chops (read Unified Field Theory equations) write
a Sims program for all of Creation.

So I'm just a lay person. Anybody out there in Ph.D land who can tell me
if this is possible?

....jeffery

jumpin jeff:
Piers Antony wrote a novel some years ago about the possible
ramifications of an omniscient observation device capable of resolving a
one way transfer of information (viewed in a multimedia format) of any
event at any magnification anywhere/when in space-time (in this
universe). His concept depended on a hypothetical information bearing
particle which was analogous to a tachyon/neutrino sort of a thing.

But I've recently realized that if you had enough hi-rez Qbits you
could, if you had the chops (read Unified Field Theory equations) write
a Sims program for all of Creation.

So I'm just a lay person. Anybody out there in Ph.D land who can tell me
if this is possible?

You'll have to restate the above in scientific language.

Bilge wrote:
jumpin jeff:
Piers Antony wrote a novel some years ago about the possible
ramifications of an omniscient observation device capable of resolving a
one way transfer of information (viewed in a multimedia format) of any
event at any magnification anywhere/when in space-time (in this
universe). His concept depended on a hypothetical information bearing
particle which was analogous to a tachyon/neutrino sort of a thing.

But I've recently realized that if you had enough hi-rez Qbits you
could, if you had the chops (read Unified Field Theory equations) write
a Sims program for all of Creation.

So I'm just a lay person. Anybody out there in Ph.D land who can tell me
if this is possible?

You'll have to restate the above in scientific language.


OK. I'm a lay person. so I'll just have to try to satisfy this condition
with the resources I have.

First, I'll try to define my terms:

omniscient observation device:
A black box able to render an image (or other information set)
representing any point (or event) in space/time from any angle.

resolving:
Package data into information for human consumption.

"one way transfer of information":
Observation without disturbance, Observing with no effect upon the
observed. (A classic violation of quantum theory, I understand)

Qbits:
I hope we're all talking about the same thing here. Quantum Computing?

Chops:
a working mathematical theory which explains "life, the universe, and
everything". I know we don't have this yet, Please don't get lost
explaining that to me.... In my hypothetical thought experiment, we
(humanity; in this instance, mostly you guys with the rest of us
supporting your efforts) have not only written this working master
theorem, but designed a working (quantum) computational algorithm from it.

Sims program:
I made the assumption you would know that "Sims" was. It is a game
designed to simulate evolving systems (demographics, planets, what have
you) using "life automata" algorithms.

Creation:
the universe (or multiverse, if required), including all of time from
the "Big Bang" forward to entropic heat death (or "Dark Force" spreading
the universe out so thin we won't get any information from anywhere at
all) or whatever 'ultimate end' scenario is in fashion at the moment...

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So the question, now that I analyze it better (thank you, Bilge), may
not be able to be answered with out current knowledge:

Question:
IF we knew the ultimate theory well enough to write an algorithm for it,
and IF we enough (quantum) computational power, could we simulate the
entire universe (down to some arbitrary level of detail below which the
differences were effectively irrelevant) as a virtual machine? OR is
there a known physical limit to the ability to process information on
that scale and in that level of detail?


I hope I'm not giving anyone a headache by being dysfunctional here...
....jeffery