And I somehow feel like I’ve read a SF short story long ago where someone found out radioactive decay followed a simple linear congruential generator, or something.
The experiment in question doesn’t seem to be the sort that is likely to crash the sim, since our part is purely passive, just looking at the differences in the pre-existing data. Note also that the simulation has to be fairly robust since there are a large number of highly varied interactions going on (e.g. cosmic rays hitting the Earth’s atmospheres and all sorts of marginal exotic reactions in the sun that are going to occur simply because the sun is so large.) But the point that there’s a general class of experiments that could plausibly cause a crash is a good one.
Xixidu tweets about experiments likely to crash the sim quite often; for example: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=18718&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spacetime-beyond-the-planck-scale
And I somehow feel like I’ve read a SF short story long ago where someone found out radioactive decay followed a simple linear congruential generator, or something.
The experiment in question doesn’t seem to be the sort that is likely to crash the sim, since our part is purely passive, just looking at the differences in the pre-existing data. Note also that the simulation has to be fairly robust since there are a large number of highly varied interactions going on (e.g. cosmic rays hitting the Earth’s atmospheres and all sorts of marginal exotic reactions in the sun that are going to occur simply because the sun is so large.) But the point that there’s a general class of experiments that could plausibly cause a crash is a good one.