Universe as a cellular automaton

[Terrr]

Have there been any published papers promoting an idea that the universe is a cellular automaton with N-dimensional Planck-scale cells with some unknown but hopefully not incredibly complex set of rules?

 

[Drakkith]

What? I don't even know how that would begin to make any sense.

 

[granpa]

Have there been any published papers promoting an idea that the universe is a cellular automaton with N-dimensional Planck-scale cells with some unknown but hopefully not incredibly complex set of rules?

string theory?

 

[Bobbywhy]

I don’t pretend to understand this, but there is a discussion of your subject matter here:

CA As Models of the Fundamental Physical Reality.

As Andrew Ilachinski points out in his Cellular Automata, many scholars have raised the question of whether the universe is a cellular automaton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

 

[Drakkith]

Ah ok, after reading that article the OP makes a lot more sense. Other than the wikipedia article I've never heard of this before, so I can't be of much help. Have you looked at the references on the wikipedia article Terrr?