Computer simulation using particles by J.W Eastwood, R.W Hockney

Computer simulation using particles



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Publisher: IOP
Format: djvu
Page: 543
ISBN: 0852743920, 9780852743928


So even using the world's most powerful supercomputers, physicists have only managed to simulate tiny corners of the cosmos just a few femtometers across. Even more disturbing, it may be a much smaller simulation that you think. This is the closest that particles in a quantum mechanical system can get to being in the same . In it, particles condense into separate regions within a material, with the particles in each region sharing the same wave function. If recent measurements of cosmic ray particles are correct, then we may have the first evidence that the universe as we know it is really a giant computer simulation. A technological society could eventually achieve It actually explains a few of the trickier things about quantum physics, like why particles have an indeterminate position until they're observed. Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Descartes' evil demon, Putnam's brain in a vat -- these are all variants of justifications for solipsism, a philosophical idea that says it's impossible to know with any certainty whether the world as we experience it is "real" or a simulation projected by some external entity. In many of the larger pharmaceutical companies, the outcome of clinical studies is predicted using computer simulations. Hi, Dear all I want a copy of this book: computer simulation using particles but I can not open both the following two. (A femtometer is 10^-15 metres.) That may not sound like much but This cut-off has been well studied and comes about because high energy particles interact with the cosmic microwave background and so lose energy as they travel long distances. It is Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom who is most often associated with the idea that we are living in a computer simulation. His premise is based on a series of assumptions: 1). €�In this sense, spins can be used here to 'simulate' bosons—a bit like your computer can simulate reality, but using quantum units like spins. The simulation of cloth, is really about the simulation of particles with mass and interconnections, called constraints or springs, between these particles - think of them as fibers in the cloth.