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by mikhailfranco
2914 days ago
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I think any computer scientist naturally and naively thinks about your 'quantum progression', since it relates to a transactional rate on interactions experienced in the local proper time of a particle, as it interacts with other real/virtual particles/fields. For example, a particle in deep space experiences faster relative time, compared to one on Earth, because it has 'fewer transactions slowing it down'. The discrete 'tick' of proper time is then one iteration of the spinning polling loop the particle executes while waiting for something to interact with. So if existence is (or requires) computation, then .... |
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Transactions with what? Other matter?
A precise weather and waterproof clock on the ground (so in air) on the surface at the north pole will tick more slowly than an identical clock immersed in seawater several metres below the sea level at the equator, thanks to the oblation of the Earth (and the rotation that causes the oblation). The equatorial water is much denser and warmer than the arctic air, so surely there are more interactions between the water and the clock?
See the Early observations subsection of the Gravity measurement section of, starting with 1672 :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum?oldformat=true#Early_...