Why is this the simplest? It looks horrendously complicated to me.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:07:26PM -0400, Hal Ruhl wrote:
> Actually the simplest potential model of our universe I know of is
> mine [was I first with this idea?] which I have posted on before. It
> is just a discrete point space where the points are confined to
> regions arranged on a face centered cubic grid and "particles" are
> just dances of these points. It is like 3D cellular automaton where
> each point independently polls its 12 nearest neighbors and then
> updates its position in its region based on the outcome and a Huge
> Look Up Table.
>
> The face centered cubic arrangement of regions where the 12 nearest
> neighbors are arranged so that there are six inline triples and the
> central or 13th region is the middle region in each triple seems to
> have low level oscillations that support the types and family size of
> known particles. This is considered the low energy arrangement of
> regions and does not prevent higher energy arrangements and thus
> higher energy dances "particles" Large objects are just huge
> coordinated dances. Dances can move through the grid but the points can
> not.
>
> Hal Ruhl
>
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