The fastest way of computing all universes

Jürgen Schmidhuber

doi:10.1142/9789814374309_0020

The fastest way of computing all universes

Jürgen Schmidhuber

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Abstract

Is there a short and fast program that can compute the precise history of our universe, including all seemingly random but possibly actually deterministic and pseudo-random quantum fluctuations? There is no physical evidence against this possibility. So let us start searching! We already know a short program that computes all constructively computable universes in parallel, each in the asymptotically fastest way. Assuming ours is computed by this optimal method, we can predict that it is among the fastest compatible with our existence. This yields testable predictions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Computable Universe: Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation
Publisher	World Scientific Publishing Co.
Pages	381-398
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9789814374309
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814374309_0020
State	Published - Jan 1 2012
Externally published	Yes

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