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102 sats \ 11 replies \ @SimpleStacker 26 Aug \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
probably everything is digital. We know energy is digital. Probably time and space are as well.
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132 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 15h
I think that even though reality might be "continuous", to use it as an information system then we would need to measure it, and that would collapse the wave-function, effectively making it "discrete".
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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 23h
Statistically speaking, most photons that are just photing through space are getting redshifted; and I don't think that is quantized.... or if it is, then the resolution is much finer than anything familiar from atomic spectra.
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444 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 22h
photing is a word that I'm going to start using. also, a brief google search says you get credit for coining it.
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142 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 22h
It's much easier to coin words if you set aside semantic propriety and just shuffle around the syntactic elements. Any actual physicists would probably be horrified by this most improper of personifications; photons can't possibly be agents, performing some action! They don't even experience time, as once you actually quantize some photon away from the arbitrary noise of the electromagnetic field, the photon's entire trajectory is all one spacetime interval.
Semantic propriety can be fun, although it takes an effort: the photing is photed by the fabric of spacetime itself, and individual photons are illusory, a notational convenience for drawing signals out of the noise.
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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @ek 26 Aug
quantum would like to have a word with your 1s and 0s
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137 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 26 Aug
what if probabilities are digital
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 26 Aug
will you find the door?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 23h
What does this mean?
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 23h
just a funnier way to say "there's the door"
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 26 Aug
Maybe speech/thought isn't?
Words are so mushy and hard to pin down. Strings of them aren't much better.
Also what about languages that use ideograms?
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 26 Aug
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