Mental orgasm

One of those once a year enlightenment. Sort of a culmination of understanding that started with the game POrtal. Something clicked in me, I just didn’t understand what. Now I do.

POrtal IntrO

What POrtal revealed is that I should cut through debating and instead just imagine whatever issue that we are debating to be either true or false. Often time, I find my mind caught up in the argument on whether or not something can even be true that I never had time to think about what the world will be like if it is true.

Once I realized this, I had a lot of fun revisiting all the extreme possibility of past debates and recently the possibilities of traveling forward in time OR predicting the future. Let’s cut the debate and just say that time travel is possible. Which of the multiple infinite future universe will you end up in? How is that determined?

First of all, the possibility of universes for the next second will not be infinite since the one you are living in at the current moment has already locked in quite a few possibilites based on physics. Things such as an asteroid at the other end of the universe killing you on the spot at the next second is impossible and therefore won’t happen.

So, the ability to go OR predict the near future increases as the computational ability of your device’s power increases and the power needs to increase exponentially as the amount of time you need to project into the future increases. This is because the amount of atmos entering the physically possible range to interfer with you increases.

To do this, we cannot base a “tick” of computational time base on seconds or atomic vibrations. It will have to be based on a unit of time which indicate the physical impossiblity for an atom to change its course. The flaw in this is that the computer that you need to compute this cannot be a matter based computer since it abides by physics law and hence are part of the physical reality that can possibly interfer with the subject that it is calculating.

Quantum computer might be able to.