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Infinity: Emergence of Reality
In the last article of the series, “Infinity: We’ve been here before”, we discussed the possibility, given the current science theories of creation, that the universe, given infinite time, will be recreated again and again, infinitely, and so will have infinite opportunities to assume the same configuration, effectively repeating all the possible universes an infinite amount of times. The “reality edition” of the library of babel.
We were left with two really tough questions, though:
- Where do the quantum vacuum fluctuations really come from?
- Where do the quantum fluctuations actually happen? In other words, where IS the universe?
Note that a physicist would probably answer the latter with “in the Bulk”, and the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle would be enough to explain the former. Stephan Wolfram would talk (at great length) about hypergraphs and rules. A spiritual person would call on God, or the Universe trying to understand itself, which for me goes back to the Chicken and Egg problem. I am none of those. Unlike everyone listed, I refuse recursive answers — answers which raise more questions, like “where does the hypergraph live, who makes the rules, and what computing substrate are they executed on?”. I also refuse to invoke belief or pseudo-science. But unlike a “real” physicist, I also allow myself to get…
