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In all simulations would there necessarily be a lattice?

The article can be found here: http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/12/10/do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation-uw-researchers-say-idea-can-be-tested/ Here is the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847 My question is not about the validity of his premises - because I actually don't...

Perhaps this question is trivial - but is an electron microscope considered classical when an observer looks through it - but quantum when one doesn't? According to bapowell it would cause what's been measured to collapse - independent of a conscious observer.

Thank you for your response. I'm having a hard time thinking of any event that doesn't in some sense perform a measurement by the definition you employed above. It seems like every event/interaction would be a measurement. Even if I suppose a photon is traveling through empty space (virtual...

I know there are many wavefunction collapse models - but with regards to the Copenhagen interpretation the idea is that a measurement will cause something to collapse into a particular state. What does the term "measurement" refer to? It makes one think of only something that a conscious being...

Aren't there other situations in which the signalling rule has been violated? Both local realism and CFD seem to be at the heart of entanglement. Are there other situations? With that said is this simply just another reason local hidden variable ideas should be abandoned and our notions of...

Here is the article: http://www.science.tamu.edu/articles/Texas+A%26M+Researcher+Helps+Discover+an+%22Almost+Psychic%22+Photonless+Communication Can someone explain how this differs from entanglement - is it as simple as these particles no longer have to be entangled to relay information...

I understand thank you.

Doesn't this seem to use a relative sense of probability? For example could we have said at one time this was in fact a very improbable event or do we rely on mathematical realism to tell us this was never improbable? To give another example can we say structure in mathematics is what gives...

In (Shannon) information theory, information is said to be the log of the inverse of the probability - what is the information content of 1+1=2? Or for that matter any fundamental axiom.