Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Tagora on February 21, 2013, 01:24:51 am
Title: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Tagora on February 21, 2013, 01:24:51 am
:shock:
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your attempt to understand the fundamental operations of nature lead you to a set of equations that are indistinguishable from the equations that drive search engines and browsers.
Tyson is kind of a tool but I was wondering what you guys thought. Is this just a string theorist rattling off about nonsense or do you think what he is saying is true? inb4 matrix references
edit: npr article on this (http://www.onbeing.org/program/uncovering-codes-reality/1457/audio?embed=1)
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Nessaj on February 21, 2013, 01:39:53 am
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Tagora on February 21, 2013, 02:04:49 am
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Kafein on February 21, 2013, 02:49:39 am
Actually, he only says they recognise patterns of bits very similar to that of a very particular error correction code. Problem is, I don't (and I doubt many people do) understand what those sequences of bits actually are. I don't know how they convert equations to shiny colorful pictures, I don't know what are the equations exactly.
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Tears of Destiny on February 21, 2013, 03:18:07 am
It implies that if you can change the vibration of the strings then you can change one type of matter into another type.
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: EponiCo on February 21, 2013, 08:19:13 am
9:13. Personal note.
When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once, when I was six, I did.
From what I understand he is not talking about what a layman might understand as "computer code", but rather certain numbers or the algorythms generating them, that appear in some string theory equations and are the same as the ones used in computer data transfer. I admit I don't understand half of it, but I think it hardly justifies being surprised or doubting the physicist is telling the truth. If anything I'd say the moderator is kind of suggestive and wants the viewer to jump to his own conclusions.
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Molly on February 21, 2013, 08:53:02 am
It's kinda pointless to say anything about this video without knowing anything of the references they did between equation, their funny little drawings and the binary code. I doubt they get binary strings out of their equations nor out of their drawings but that's just me...
And block codes, which he mentions somewhere at the end, are special in their own right too. Overall there is not much information in it to go on but maybe that's just me too :D
Title: Re: Computer Code in Superstring Equations
Post by: Rumblood on February 22, 2013, 07:32:14 am
I think it is similar to the assassinations foretold in Herman Melvilles Moby Dick.
If anything I'd say the moderator is kind of suggestive and wants the viewer to jump to his own conclusions.
This so much. This is so fucking typical. And not even the viewer's own conclusions. If you have very little knowledge of the vocabulary they are using, you can only understand the gross exaggeration he shouts at some point.