I've enjoying reading this, even if Dinosawer is sure I don't really understand physics.
Two questions do come to mind, though:
1. Where does this leave Einstein's certainty that a statistical universe opens the door to what he called "spooky actions at a distance?"
2. What do the recent BICEP2 findings do to this picture of reality? (Assuming those results
can be verified.)
Also, given the game we're here to talk about, did this (other than the "shrinking" part) sound familiar to anyone else?
Kichae Chandramani wrote:... Relativity Theory predicts that the universe has no edges and no centre. It predicts that space can, and does, grow or shrink depending on what can be found in that space. Finally, it predicts that "the Big Bang" happened everywhere, simultaneously, and that it continues to this very day (just at a slower rate; this was discovered in the 1930s by Edwin Hubble). It also strongly suggests that the universe is, in fact, infinite in extent.
Hmmm. The initial universe in LT comes into being everywhere, simultaneously, and almost (but not quite) instantly. At any moment in time it has a real "edge," but it can expand (theoretically) infinitely though at a slower rate than the initial expansion.
Our universe is procedurally generated?