Recent content by faddishworm

Hey all, I was wondering if the singularity at the bottom of a black hole is similar to what the universe would be like before the big bang, i.e. heaps of mass/energy concentrated into a tiny point. To me I always think of black holes as sinkholes dotted throughout the universe which are...

Thanks Bill, I'm glad I'm not completely missing the point. To me it seems like the universe is like a big state machine. It would be very hard to work out a way to explain the universe without using time, we might even have to abandon Math as a language to convey the model all together...

Do you mean the time it takes an algorithm to compute something grows? or the algo itself?

How can an algorithm grow?

Hey All, I was wondering if anyone had ever done any work on the P v NP problem that involved expressing P = NP as a limit I am sure there are 1001 "proofs" submitted every day to official boards at math institutes so I thought I would come here to get a handle on the state of the problem...

Thanks for reply, yes I think I am teetering on the edge of philosophy here. Regarding Math breaking down, I think you are right, infinity has never made much sense to me either. Coming from a computer-science background I do know there is a limit to the numbers we can process and the whole...

Thanks very much for the answers. Perhaps Michio Kaku is just confusing me. What happens to time in a black hole if it doesn't "freeze"? I worry that this guy's math isn't quite modelling the universe properly - like with what happens when we actually equate things to 0 or infinity - but I...

Ironically the difference in the two answers highlights (to some degree) the point I am trying to make. I can google the definition of a second though. And by definition what we perceive as time is just how long we wait between an event that takes place in cesium? A second is still an arbitrary...

Once I said "there is no such thing as time" in my high school physics class and got laughed at. I still don't understand how time can be anything "natural" though and I was wondering if someone could help me understand it. I get the concept of an arrow of time, and how our minds organise...