Re: The Universe as a Cellular Automata?

From: Mark A Biggar (mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1993 - 21:15:20 UTC


In article <1993Jun3.110922.5159@prim> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>Can someone point me in the direction of any articles about attempts to 
>create a cellular automaton that models the physical universe? How successful 
>are CA's in reproducing the peculiar "clumping" (eg the structure of the 
>elementary particles) found in the real world? I've read about how the game 
>of life produces "gliders" and such like, but the physical world exhibits 
>sort of recursive structure. Is relativity a problem in such models? Or QM?

There is a collection of papers on CA that contains some articles on this
subject:

"Cellular Automata, Theory and Experiment", MIT Press/North-Holland, 
ed. Howard Gutowitz, 1991, ISBN 0-262-57086-6, 479 pgs., Reprinted
from Physics D, vol 45 no. 1-3, 1990.

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Mark Biggar
mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com


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