Ever wondered if our reality operates like a computer program? This video delves into the fascinating concept of discrete time, exploring how simulations from Farmville to the universe itself might have an underlying 'clock speed.' It challenges our perception of how fundamental reality truly functions.
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Basically, each of those operations is laid into the structure of the wires in the AND gates and OR gates. And so that is one operation. And so everything within the game, or within the simulation, or the computer program, has to be a multiple of that. And time inside the simulation doesn't necessarily have to do with the time outside the simulation. You can have a simulation of fruit flies where every every second, one year is passed. Uh, you can have uh, Farmville or Minecraft where, you know, every six hours, a full day and night have passed, and your crops are growing, for example. Uh, so there's a whole lot of that stuff and and people are theorizing that there is a clock speed to the universe, that time may also be discrete. We don't know that for sure, but it may be. There's something else really critical that just came up on my radar recently that I think is part of this conversation. Uh, NAND gates, you know, you you were just citing some of the Boolean logic, so you probably saw this, but NAND gates are uh, turn out to be the the primary fundamental ...
