Topic: A New Kind Of Science?
started by: forumwhore
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 13 2002,19:51
So there's this Wolfram guy who published his own book, who's theory is that the whole universe can be condensed to a simple code.I like that idea. He's quite controversial, some scientists fart fire when they hear his name. What is the consensus on the campuses out there?
This evolves into this;
Posted by Rhydant on Jul. 13 2002,20:15
< yeah >.whats with all the inane rambling as of late?
Posted by DRUFER on Jul. 13 2002,20:32
He's happy that were gonna get our new front page/content management system that Jim's putting together.
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 13 2002,21:09
"no spam""wolfram and the new science"
?I do have problems forcing the update sometimes,
otherwise, I'm just having fun posting pix on the front
page. Makes it come alive, yes?
Posted by a2n3d7y on Jul. 13 2002,21:19
I read an article about that Dude, it was.....neat.| Quote |
| theory is that the whole universe can be condensed to a simple code. |
Are you saying you can predict the future with this code tho??? Be carefull.
Posted by Necromancer on Jul. 14 2002,03:33
universe is just one big fractal thats how you can see it as infinite.the guy is stating the obvious.
"duh the universe has a pattern"
well no shit sherlock solve quantum theory and chaos prediction and THEN we'll buy you a beer
Posted by TheTaxMan on Jul. 14 2002,14:29
| Quote (forumwhore @ 13 July 2002,13:09) |
| Makes it come alive, yes? |
It's actually annoying as hell, esp. if you don't coe to the site every day (or even more than once a day) and scroll through the swaths of drivle to find that there really isn't a meaningful news topic.
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Posted by Wolfguard on Jul. 14 2002,19:50
read the "Well of Souls" series by Jack L. Chalker.You will learn that the universe as we know it is held together by equations running on a very large computer.
I think we need to go there, reset the stupdity varable a lot lower and reboot the system.
Posted by Beldurin on Jul. 14 2002,20:59
Piers Anthony wrote a series of books that got pretty heavily into fractals as well, the Mode series. It was ok, but got a little too heavy, went far into fractals and the Mandelbrot set, etc...
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 14 2002,22:32
TaxMan, if you'd like to write some news, maybe I could put it up for ya!
Or another Admin!
Perhaps I'm operating under an illusion, I always say to post what you want to read about;
from this thread I've found a couple new books to read right off the bat...
I think I stepped on your toes not long ago, and I didn't intend to affront you, nor am I now.
Posted by Nikita on Jul. 14 2002,22:49
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Posted by Marauder on Jul. 15 2002,03:42
Wait... If a computer's running all the calculations for physics and you reboot... Oh, shi-