Can water solve a maze? [video]
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Can water solve a maze? [video]
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#2Simple video, yet fascinating
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#3For sufficiently large mazes it must get harder to push the water through. Water can't solve a Tesla valve. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve)
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#4If you are using a gas rather than a liquid, it is even simpler. Just set a high pressure at the beginning and a low pressure at the end. The gas will automatically follow the steepest part of the pressure gradient.
The static solution can be calculated by solving the Poisson equation. In [1] you can see a small implementation of the idea.
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#5Maze solving by gravity assisted literal flood-fill [1]
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#6For sufficiently large mazes it must get harder to push the water through. Water can't solve a Tesla valve. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve )
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#7I've often wondered, is this vaguely analogous to the quantum wave function and what's happening when particles try all possible paths?
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#8A computer is a computer, and our universe is a computer. So, it's possible we're living in a simulation but not one that was intentionally constructed by a higher life form, but rather, a simulation that emerged from nature (e.g. electrons whizzing along the surface of silica rock on a desolate planet). Our universe could recursively be computers all the way down.
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#9I've often wondered, is this vaguely analogous to the quantum wave function and what's happening when particles try all possible paths?
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#10A computer is a computer, and our universe is a computer. So, it's possible we're living in a simulation but not one that was intentionally constructed by a higher life form, but rather, a simulation that emerged from nature (e.g. electrons whizzing along the surface of silica rock on a desolate planet). Our universe could recursively be computers all the way down.
A computer is always imperfect though, compared to the universe, which is very stable and extremely perfect to the last detail. I don't think we can even compare since the scale and the domain is so vast.