Are the Laws of Physics Changing with Time?
This article discusses the notion that the laws of physics may be evolving. I spent a great deal of time during and after college trying to model this phenomenon using a new class of cellular automata that I came up with. In my conception, I wanted to design a cellular automaton that started out with no assumptions about the topology of space, the state of space, or the underlying physical laws (the CA rule, in this case). So I created a meta-cellular-automata framework in which these characteristics could emerge from a single higher-level meta-rule applied recursively to itself over time. In other words, the energy state of space at a given time was interpreted as a specification for the rule (the physical laws) to be applied to that same space at the next step in time. The rule modifes the state of links between nodes, as well as the states of nodes. The link-states are interpreted as the topology, the node-states are interpreted as the energy at each location. The model is very elegant, but probably would not be comprehensible to anyone who is not already familiar with cellular-automata and neural network models. Let me know if you want to discuss it.




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