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I would post obligatory link of someone calculating expected number of universes on top of ours based on planks distance and something else, but I can't find it.

Instead have this simulation argument here: http://www.simulation-argument.com/



Are you referring to the SMBC comic?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535


"Like maybe a minimum temperature or a maximum speed..."

Max speed, sure. But minimum temperature? It's zero (Kelvin). Of course there's gonna be a minimum, this doesn't belong here.


There are temperatures lower than zero kelvin. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/neg... for a technical description, http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-z... for a more readable article.


There are temperatures lower than zero kelvin.

There are negative temperatures, but I wouldn't characterize them as being "lower than zero kelvin". It would be more accurate to say that negative temperatures are "higher than $\infty$ kelvin".


Value that reaches maximum possible energy goes negative? Sounds suspiciously like integer overflow...


Value that reaches maximum possible energy goes negative?

Maximum temperature, not maximum energy. Negative temperatures are even higher energies.

The real issue here is that T is a dumb unit -- 1/T makes a lot more sense, and when you look at it that way, the trend is just "higher energies have lower 1/T" and passing through zero is entirely unremarkable.


Why is max speed (and min temp) an indication that (our) "universe [is] being optimized for good computation"?


Yup, for some reason I was looking for xkcd comic.


Those two and Abstruse Goose are the trio I always check when looking for stuff like this.


this was a great one, thanks for the link.


Isn't Planck length just an arbitrary and abstract distance?

I was under the impression that it had no basis in the physical structure of the universe.




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