<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>You can reconstruct every mathematical theory as information flow and restrictions. That&amp;#x27;s a property of mathematics (Turing found that), not physics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>antimagic</author><text>I always find it fascinating at just how much of our fundamental physics ends up being constraints on information movement. The laws of thermodynamics are about entropy, general relativity puts constraints on the movement of information (for example, Spooky Action as a Distance(tm) is faster than light, but you can&amp;#x27;t transmit information with it), the Uncertainty Principle puts limits on how much information you can have on a given system.&lt;p&gt;Information information everywhere you look in fundamental physics.  It does make me wonder why.</text></item><item><author>zw123456</author><text>And perhaps someday we&amp;#x27;ll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like &amp;quot;oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to load a patch but then the confusion it was causing with the simulated beings became interesting and so I just left it in as an accidental feature of the game.&amp;quot; 
Meh, but probably not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds</title><url>http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/experiment-confirms-quantum-theory-weirdness</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to imagine a universe with infinite resolution. You&amp;#x27;d effectively have an infinite number of bits in an infinitely dense space, which would potentially require infinite energy to flip.&lt;p&gt;But I suspect (on no basis whatsoever, except the fact that all previous metaphors have been wrong) that the &amp;quot;universe = Turing machine model&amp;quot; is wrong in some fundamental ways.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what the universe is, but I&amp;#x27;m open to the possibility that it isn&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; an information processing system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>antimagic</author><text>I always find it fascinating at just how much of our fundamental physics ends up being constraints on information movement. The laws of thermodynamics are about entropy, general relativity puts constraints on the movement of information (for example, Spooky Action as a Distance(tm) is faster than light, but you can&amp;#x27;t transmit information with it), the Uncertainty Principle puts limits on how much information you can have on a given system.&lt;p&gt;Information information everywhere you look in fundamental physics.  It does make me wonder why.</text></item><item><author>zw123456</author><text>And perhaps someday we&amp;#x27;ll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like &amp;quot;oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to load a patch but then the confusion it was causing with the simulated beings became interesting and so I just left it in as an accidental feature of the game.&amp;quot; 
Meh, but probably not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds</title><url>http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/experiment-confirms-quantum-theory-weirdness</url></story>