[ExI] Weird new way to do physics

The Avantguardian avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 4 02:45:43 UTC 2011


Whilest pondering the uselessness of dimensionless Planck units, I hit upon an idea that makes them far less cumbersome to work with. In the process, I realized that my technique should make physics accessible to computers in a way they never were before. Yes, computers have been used to do physics calculations before but what I am trying to do is get my humble PC to discover novel laws of nature. In other words, as I write this, my computer is running a brute-force search algorithm in Python to discover novel mathematical relationships between length, time, mass, charge, and temperature i.e. the fundamental dimensions of physics within certain boundaries. So using my technique, computers can be used not just to model physics but to perform abstract dimensional analysis as well. I will let you all know what my algorithm comes up with.
 
   

Stuart LaForge


“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -Clay Shirky




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