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by noobermin 3255 days ago
6*N, yes. Pretty bad mistake there. But yes, even if you don't model every particle and restrict yourself to "parcels" of fluid like in most simulations, you still have a very difficult problem.
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Okay, this is really showing my ignorance but why 6?

You start off with 4 (3 space plus one time (ignoring 11-dimensional space-time)) and add which dimensions exactly? Can the individual interactions between wave/particles be reduced to 2 dimensions? Aren't they going to interact along the whole range of forces they exert: gravitational, weak, electromagnetic, strong?

3 dimensions for position + 3 dimensions for speed
3 dimensions for momentum in other words? Surely it cannot be that simple. That's astounding.