If we already live in a Matrix then we already live by the Architect's rules. It won't matter how good our telescopes or our microscopes are, always our observations are defined by the constants the Matrix Architect chose. We won't be able to trick the master program into showing something that it cannot show. There is no reason to fake physics results since all constants c, pi, h etc. are already arbitrarily defined and the world has been built on top of them. Whatever the Architect missed in his design it is known as a paradox in our world (you know, the few particles breaking the symmetry laws or the paradox involving the second law of thermodynamics). Even more, unless the Architect used the same constants and values from his own world, it is strongly possible that our world and his world are entirely different.
I will bring here a small example from my daily work as a programmer. Most people are familiar with menus and the most recent files used list - MRU.
This is a constant I usually set at the beginning of my programming work as a #define constant, and usually I set it to 10. Now imagine I give my Menus a little intelligence and they will start to study their universe. One of their biggest puzzles will be the MRU constant: it is always 10. It is not much unlike c- the speed of light in our universe. The Menu denizens will try their best to create telescopes and microscopes to solve this puzzle, to no avail: wherever they look they will see the same MRU=10, because this is what I did set up before compiling their world and implicitly it is a hardcoded part of their world. If they try to break this rule, at the very most, and only if they become very advanced they will cause mayhem in their world (and a computer crash in mine).
There are few interesting developments here:
- The Menus are not aware of me since I don't provide them with my web cam feed. They will troll around in their ignorance until I choose otherwise.
- The Menus can be contacted and let know about their puny situation by a rogue program on my machine.
- In order to change the MRU constant, I (the creator) have to destroy their world and recompile (recreate) it.
- The Menu world has not been built in my image. Their Menu divinity (known by my peer programmers as the 'Help' menu) has no resemblance with its maker.
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If we already live in a Matrix then we already live by the Architect's rules. It won't matter how good our telescopes or our microscopes are, always our observations are defined by the constants the Matrix Architect chose. We won't be able to trick the master program into showing something that it cannot show. There is no reason to fake physics results since all constants c, pi, h etc. are already arbitrarily defined and the world has been built on top of them. Whatever the Architect missed in his design it is known as a paradox in our world (you know, the few particles breaking the symmetry laws or the paradox involving the second law of thermodynamics). Even more, unless the Architect used the same constants and values from his own world, it is strongly possible that our world and his world are entirely different.
I will bring here a small example from my daily work as a programmer. Most people are familiar with menus and the most recent files used list - MRU.
This is a constant I usually set at the beginning of my programming work as a #define constant, and usually I set it to 10. Now imagine I give my Menus a little intelligence and they will start to study their universe. One of their biggest puzzles will be the MRU constant: it is always 10. It is not much unlike c- the speed of light in our universe. The Menu denizens will try their best to create telescopes and microscopes to solve this puzzle, to no avail: wherever they look they will see the same MRU=10, because this is what I did set up before compiling their world and implicitly it is a hardcoded part of their world. If they try to break this rule, at the very most, and only if they become very advanced they will cause mayhem in their world (and a computer crash in mine).
There are few interesting developments here:
- The Menus are not aware of me since I don't provide them with my web cam feed. They will troll around in their ignorance until I choose otherwise.
- The Menus can be contacted and let know about their puny situation by a rogue program on my machine.
- In order to change the MRU constant, I (the creator) have to destroy their world and recompile (recreate) it.
- The Menu world has not been built in my image. Their Menu divinity (known by my peer programmers as the 'Help' menu) has no resemblance with its maker.