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AMA | February 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
How to Reconcile Gravity With Quantum Mechanics
In a previous AMA question, Brendan K said that to simulate the universe would require a computer the size of the universe. But why does a simulated universe have to be rendered in real time? Could a smaller and simpler computer simulate a more complex universe given enough compute time? Sure. If you want to do that computation in some other arrangement, that's fine. It's harder than you might think because the universe interacts with itself.
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