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 Topic: Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is Like A 'Giant Brain'

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  • Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is Like A 'Giant Brain'
     OP - November 28, 2012, 06:29 AM
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    The idea of the universe as a 'giant brain' has been proposed by scientists - and science fiction writers - for decades.

    But now physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true. In a sense.

    According to a study published in Nature's Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain - with the electrical firing between brain cells 'mirrored' by the shape of expanding galaxies.

    The results of a computer simulation suggest that "natural growth dynamics" - the way that systems evolve - are the same for different kinds of networks - whether its the internet, the human brain or the universe as a whole.

    A co-author of the study, Dmitri Krioukov from the University of California San Diego, said that while such systems appear very different, they have evolved in very similar ways.

    The result, they argue, is that the universe really does grow like a brain.

    ...

    The team's simulation modelled the very early life of the universe, shortly after the big bang, by looking at how quantum units of space-time smaller than subatomic particles 'networked' with each other as the universe grew.

    They found that the simulation mirrored that of other networks. Some links between similar nodes resulted in limited growth, while others acted as junctions for many different connections.

    More at source

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  • Re: Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'
     Reply #1 - November 28, 2012, 06:32 AM
    Headline fail. Similar structural properties =/= equivalent objects. Tongue

    Otherwise, cool. Smiley
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  • Re: Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is Like A 'Giant Brain'
     Reply #2 - November 28, 2012, 06:43 AM
    Yeah the SPACE.com article linked there has a better headline. I've modified the title a bit to reflect that.
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  • Re: Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is Like A 'Giant Brain'
     Reply #3 - November 28, 2012, 10:25 PM
    Yes the headline is unfortunate. Kind of implies agency, well the apologists will see it that way. "AHA that's God that is!!" Argument from analogy, a bit like that DNA code is 'information' or a 'code'.
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  • Re: Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is Like A 'Giant Brain'
     Reply #4 - November 28, 2012, 10:35 PM
    Isn't this the fractal universe idea?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


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