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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Spot Draves, the dude who made Electric Sheep, once described cyberspace as “infinite dimensional”. When I asked what he meant, he meant that every connection was orthogonal to everything else, and that you could instantly connect to anything by uttering its name. It was like space where you could get anywhere by introducing a new dimension where the distance, along that dimension, from you to that place was zero.
He also told me, in that same conversation, that he thinks this universe might be a 3D simulation running in a 2D universe. It was a fun conversation.
A 3D simulation running in a 2D universe?
Yeah. So basically physics tends to work in N dimensions, or at least that’s how he explained it. So they derived the equations of physics then added a third dimension and started a simulation. Then moved themselves into it.
In the same way, one could take a physics engine for a game, and make all those functions operate in four spatial dimensions. Then you could simulate a 4-dimensional universe.