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Scientists freak over reactivated AMS star + Saddle-shaped cosmos could subvert GR

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That 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Kicked Into Action Again, And Scientists Are Freaking Out
http://www.sciencealert.com/that-alien-m...eaking-out

EXCERPT: The strangest star in the Universe has suddenly kicked into gear again, with researchers reporting that its light has started dimming in bizarre ways - just like it did two years ago when it baffled scientists with its irregular light emissions. This time around, we get to watch the investigation in action, because over the weekend, astronomers started freaking out on Twitter, telling everyone with a telescope big enough to train in on the star and help them figure out what's actually going on here. "

As far as I can tell, every telescope that can look at it right now is looking at it right now," astronomer Matt Muterspaugh from Tennessee State University told Loren Grush at The Verge. When [Jason] Wright took questions from the public over the weekend, he said it's unlikely that the mystery of about KIC 8462852 will be solved immediately. But we've now got astronomers from all over the world on the case, and a whole lot of new data, so we're better placed than ever before to figure out what's behind these unexplained light patterns....



'Saddle-shaped' universe could undermine general relativity
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/saddl...relativity

EXCERPT: [...] In recent years, researchers have used computer simulations to predict the existence of ‘naked singularities’ – that is, singularities which exist outside an event horizon. Naked singularities would invalidate the cosmic censorship conjecture and, by extension, general relativity’s ability to explain the universe as a standalone theory. However, all of these predictions have been modelled on universes which exist in higher dimensions. For example, in 2016, two Cambridge PhD students predicted the existence of a naked singularity, but their predictions were based on a five-dimensional universe. The new research, by Toby Crisford and Jorge Santos from Cambridge’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, has predicted the existence of a naked singularity in a four-dimensional universe - three spatial dimensions, plus time - for the first time. Their predictions show that a naked singularity can form in a special kind of curved space known as anti-de Sitter space, in which the universe has a distinctive ‘saddle’ shape. [...] Anti-de Sitter space has a very different structure to flat space. In particular it has a boundary which light can reach, at which point it is reflected back. “It’s a bit like having a spacetime in a box...."
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I had a hypothesis some time back when the consideration of whether the Higg's Boson was going to be proven or not, and whether it could prove simulation theory.

Prior to the "discovery", subatomics would seemingly be "chaotic" for the absence of a empirically defined model. In vast masses like star's that chaos plays out as entropy and is a part of what defines the energy output. The consideration was that when a model was derived empirically, it would lessen the level of entropy as the model would have a define structure as opposed to unknown quantities. This would therefore suggest that if every atomic state was to be "corrected at the time of the Higg's Boson discover to the new model" that the universe would actually lose energy output and this would be most noticeable from stars.

I considered that if the action of discovery triggered such a change on the day the discovery was seen as the consensus, that it would effect all matter throughout the universe instantaneously. This would then be observable after a number of years after the initial event, since that is how long light would take to travel to reach us for it to be observed. It did lead to other considerations like Could such cascading effects also provide clue of universal cooling?

The one problem to the theory however is that if the universe is a man-made simulation and such considerations as mentioned above are considered, then the design of the universe itself would likely be "hardened" against such effects, which would therefore negate any observation made and invalidate the theory, making it all a moot point.
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(May 23, 2017 07:47 AM)stryder Wrote: I had a hypothesis some time back when the consideration of whether the Higg's Boson was going to be proven or not, and whether it could prove simulation theory. Prior to the "discovery", subatomics would seemingly be "chaotic" for the absence of a empirically defined model. [...] This would therefore suggest that if every atomic state was to be "corrected at the time of the Higg's Boson discover to the new model" that the universe would actually lose energy output and this would be most noticeable from stars. I considered that if the action of discovery triggered such a change on the day the discovery was seen as the consensus, that it would effect all matter throughout the universe instantaneously. [...]


Probably steps beyond the parameters of or any dependence upon simulation affairs, but the retrocasuality of the Transactional Interpretation of QM is contended in some corners to allow a cosmic timeline that could revise or refine itself toward internal self-consistency. (Tweaking the Past)

Caslav Brukner's "information overload" explanation of quantum physics oddities vaguely suggests a possibility that it might open a doorway to simulation speculation. (The End of the Quantum Road?)

Bob Swarup: Information theory, says Brukner, is the key to showing how plausible (or indeed implausible) it is that a deeper classical reality underlies quantum mechanics. It reveals that even within the simplest quantum system—an electron spin—classical realism is extremely resource demanding. That’s because it would take infinitely many hidden variables to encode all the instructions needed to explain the results of all possible measurements of the electron’s spin.

Brukner argues that the total information that can be carried by an electron spin is finite. That means, by necessity, the system’s answers to some questions will contain an element of randomness. Thus, Brukner and Zeilinger realized that the observed quantum behavior could be explained by nothing more mysterious than a lack of storage space for sufficient information.

[...] Information theory can also be easily extended to naturally explain quantum entanglement—or "spooky action at a distance," as it was dubbed by Einstein. [...] it would take two bits of information to jointly encode entanglement into two particle spins, so that they are parallel to each other. Once those two bits have been exhausted, there is no more storage space to encode extra spin information into either of the two entangled particles individually, says Brukner. As a result of this lack of extra encoded information, measuring the spin of one of the pair must yield a random value, while the spin of its partner will be immediately fixed, regardless of distance.

[...] Brukner’s work suggests that weird quantum properties such as superposition and randomness are here to stay—any theory that tries to get rid of them will fail to overcome this information limit.


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