Thursday, May 21, 2009

Are Fredkin and Wolfram correct about the fundamental paradigm of physical reality?

   Is there something fundamentally missing in the physical ideas of Witten and other quantum gravitational theorists? Are there four fundamental physical constants: Newton's gravitational constant, the speed of light, Planck's constant, and the Fredkin-Wolfram constant? Is the Fredkin-Wolfram constant essential for describing the computational complexity of a black hole?
   Does a black hole have a boundary with weird turbulence that sometimes allows a photon to escape and become an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray? Is the weird turbulence deterministically computable based upon the computational complexity of the black hole?
   If quantum mechanics is the semi-random basis of causality, then what is the semi-causal basis of randomness? Is the answer a Fredkin-Wolfram computational model that allows approximation of branching and collapsing Markov chains in gravitationally-compatible quantum field theories? Is the main point of quantum gravity theory to find an empirically correct prediction that forces a minimal number of choices for mathematically valid models?
   "What I am saying is that at the most basic level of complexity an information process runs what we think of as physics." - Edward Fredkin

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