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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Universe is an Imagination Laser

As everyone already knows, the three conditions for lasing are 1) a resonant chamber 2) a gain medium and 3) an improbable quantum state of a population. What is less well known is that the universe is an imagination laser. This is likely the case whenever I invent something up from whole cloth. Observe.

Is This All There Is?
A hot, dense existence radiates information across an interval of time. At the end of the interval, a reflector forms a resonant chamber. Space-time is the gain medium. Imagination is an improbable quantum state for a population of minds. The two ends of the resonant chamber are the hot, dense singularity and the restaurant at the end of the universe[3.1416].

The big bang erupted from the hot, dense softball sized singularity 13.72 BYA from our inertial frame on the third rock from the sun in 2012. At some point away from the present (in the direction of increasing entropy) the universe 'computes' a response. This response (from the kitchen in the restaurant at the end of the universe) sends information (the menu items, the price of each item, the availability of the catch of the day) in the direction of decreasing entropy 'back' to the singularity [6e8]. Viola. The imagination laser.

[3.1416] The Omega Machine is not a machine at all. According to Steven Wolfram, the entire universe is a simulation. The question begging -- what is the hardware and what is the software -- disturbs us and beguiles us but, per Wittgenstein, at some point explanations fail. Something that I respond to but cannot prove...

[6e8] Like Hawking Radiation... hand waving, miracle happens here, look! what's that behind you?

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