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Computer simulation using particles J.W Eastwood, R.W Hockney
Publisher: IOP

His premise is based on a series of assumptions: 1). A technological society could eventually achieve It actually explains a few of the trickier things about quantum physics, like why particles have an indeterminate position until they're observed. Principal Investigator Dimitris G. Eastwood,Computer Simulation Using Particles, Bristol, Eng- land: IOP Publishing, 1988. BIT is based on fast summation algorithms, which eliminates the need for a fixed .. Angelakis and his group members Changsuk Noh A general hope for quantum simulations is that they will address problems too complex to study in situ and too hard to model on conventional computers. The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, CQT researchers have found. Your point of using an analog computer to model continuous processes is an excellent suggestion to particle physicists! Technology Review explains that “the problem with all simulations is that the laws of physics, which appear continuous, have to be superimposed onto a discrete three dimensional lattice which advances in steps of time.” What that basically means is that by just being a simulation, the computer would put limits on, for instance, the energy that particles can have within the program. Of the many varieties, the most accepted approach is Particle-In-Cell. The PI, with his collaborators, is developing an alternative approach, the Boundary In- tegral Treecode (BIT) [2] and Gridless DSMC. Who or what is the But can a computer populate such a simulation with thinking beings, artificially intelligent simulated beings, like humans? Even more disturbing, it may be a much smaller simulation that you think. Personnel Supported During Duration of Grant. MessageToEagle.com - Are we just a computer simulation? It is Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom who is most often associated with the idea that we are living in a computer simulation. Terrell thinks so and that Terrell notes, "The experiment shows something really rather extraordinary, that matter, even though it behaves when you are looking at it, measuring it, as individual particles, when you are not looking at it, matter is diffuse.