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Dark energy may be the "smoking gun" that vindicates the NKS approach to physics

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Posted by: Paul B. White

If you are interested in either dark energy or the NKS/universe-as-computation approach to physics and cosmology, then you should read my paper "Dark Energy and Logical Substructure" (see attachment below). It's only about 5 pages.

The teaser:

If (a) dark energy is trying to tell us something fundamental about how the universe works (as many physicists believe), and (b) the universe is the result of some kind of fundamental derivation/computation (as NKSers believe), then it stands to reason that there should be some deep connection between the two.

What might that connection be? Read the paper.

Comments are welcome.

Paul White
BS Physics


Posted by: MikeHelland

Probably not the kind of response you were looking for... but isn't Dark Energy an ad hoc solution to problems with the Big Bang and expanding Universe?


It's my great hope that a Cosmology based on NKS lacks both expansion and the Big Bang.


Posted by: Paul B. White

Mike,

The "problem" with the expansion is that it seems to be accelerating, instead of decelerating (as was previoulsy supposed). You could say that "dark energy" is the ad hoc term used to label the energy that must be involved in creating such an acceleration.




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