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Re: Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s “Constructor Theory of Time”

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Post by nothrowaways » Mon, May 19, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

monocasa wrote: post #3

revskill wrote: post #2

What is it for ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory

"The fundamental elements of the theory are tasks.. A task is impossible if there is a law of physics that forbids its being performed with arbitrarily high accuracy, and possible otherwise. When it is possible, a constructor for it can be built, again with arbitrary accuracy and reliability."

Re: Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s “Constructor Theory of Time”

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Post by empiricus » Mon, May 19, 2025, 10:46 AM UTC

SandroG wrote: post #6

amelius wrote: post #4

Can it simulate a hydrogen atom? How about two hydrogen atoms coming into contact with various energies?

Here you go: https://github.com/gvelesandro/constructor-theory-simulator/...

Not sure what to make of this. The only relation with the hydrogen atom is that it has the name "Hydrogen" in the code. And the only relation with the energy is that is has a float value called "energy_gap" which has some random hardcoded value.

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