Titanic Simulation

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This is probably like watching paint dry for most people. But the simulation puts together most of what we know about the course of her sinking via little blurbs in a timeline. I love timelines.

I've been enthralled with Titanic since I was a boy and I just now learned how late Smith, Wilde, and Andrews tried to call barely-filled boats back in to pick up more people.

The simulation gets two elements absolutely right: the moonless, stars-ablaze sky witnessing all and the calm, cold water darkly receiving all. Titanic played that physical and spiritual interface like nothing before or since.

For the impatient, fast-forward to about 2:12 when her demise really picks up speed.

"Causal dynamical triangulations"

This video is part of a larger Nature article titled "Theoretical physics: The origins of space and time". Subtitled "Many researchers believe that physics will not be complete until it can explain not just the behavior of space and time, but where these entities come from."

Casual dynamical triangulation uses just two dimensions: one of space and one of time. The video shows two-dimensional universes generated by pieces of space assembling themselves according to quantum rules. Each colour represent a slice through the universe at particular time after the Big Bang, which is depicted as a tiny black ball.

 

Causal dynamical triangulations

bill stroud • 2013-08-29 12:10 AM said...     

Of course it would seem that language was never intended to provide such meaningful terms that identifies the actual state or state transitions. After all its the structure of language where precise (imprecise) terms create paradoxes. The truths exist in domains that language will never describe. When we can communicate at a level that language never can, we will begin to assemble these elusive truths. Language is a member of the Darwinian set of rational.