Would it be a far-off concept that all matter is simply highly-complex strings of quantum data

I love this type of discussion

@Silent Massacre That is not that weird. Our representation of the world is a fabrication of our brain. We just perceive the data and transform it to something that makes sense to us. It's the same as what you might find in a hidden layer of a neural network

I wonder what would happen if the Greek philosophers had our current technology.

They would wage war on the thots

xD

http://yosinski.com/static/proj/deepvis_fc8_visualized_sample_small.jpg

This is what a neural network generates internally (this is random). It might be that our brain does the same to make sense of things

Interesting.

I'm gonna lose sleep over this kind of stuff but I'm not mad about it.

😃

But on a more serious side-note, if you go deeper, or higher depending on the point of view.

The base reality, at the lowest level - while it probably reflects a lot of the rules in our universe - there might be things that are at their core chaos manifest.

For instance, infinities of time and space.

I've always thought about a quote in my head, and I'm paraphrasing, "Chaos is order yet to be deciphered" and "Time is merely a measure of change"

Only if you are not a photon travelling through space.

Oof.

So let's call the base reality "steins gate" reality

We will have a lot of similarities with this base reality, but there are some key differences

Time and space might be infinities in both instances, but some infinities are larger than other infinities (Can be proven with math, can't explain this right now, google it)

Could it be that the higher up you go the reality pyramid, the faster light can travel?

That might explain quantum entanglement.

How so?

As far as my primitive brain goes, *tachyons* are the fastest-moving known particles

Scratch that, they're *hypothetical* particles so welp

The quantum particles use the higher dimensions to know the state of the other quantum particle and thus they can communicate ftl.

I'm trying to read this: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=292

And it makes little sense to me

e.e

Did someone say STEINS GATE

Tbh, I only learned about the hypothesis of tachyons through Watchmen. XD

Okay, I think I understand it now

@Roko @JDB El Psy Kongroo.

So generally particles that aren't moving have a mass. We call this "rest mass". Anything with a positive mass cannot go faster than light.

Remember the god particle, a.k.a. higgs boson? This is responsible for giving things mass. If you remove this, the particle's minimum speed is the speed of light, and the maximum speed is infinity.

So the big catch is removing that mass.

A very big catch

It's like a property that's placed on an object (I'm talking in programming terms now). If you can change it to let's say a negative number depending on how fast you want to go, you can achieve your goal.

Makes sense in that aspect. How our current technology can come close to pulling that off, I don't know.

@Silent Massacre The alcubierre drive is a solution for faster than light travel (FTL). It basically creates a bubble around you that warps spacetime.

So basically a black hole?

A bubble, you say?

It might be the wrong term but is that a sort of *Event Horizon*?

You're close @EdgyEcchis

"Gravity doesn't literally bend spacetime. What it actually does is modify the spacetime interval. This modification can cause straight paths to appear to bend and time durations to alter to an outside observer. Because one of our convenient ways of thinking about spacetime is as one interwoven fabric where the border between time and space is a bit fuzzy, we say that gravity can "bend" or "warp" spacetime and alter the shape of this fabric/surface/whatever.

So to answer your question, time does not literally "bend". A massive object modifies the proper time interval around it such that an outside observer would see objects near the mass experience less time and spacetime intervals would have their spatial components modified accordingly. But that is a lot to say. It's much easier for us to simply say that gravity is spacetime being warped." -- https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/192318/can-anyone-explain-me-how-time-can-bend-according-to-einstein-in-simple-way