Imagine a fish physicist. She is brilliant. Over centuries her tradition has built a physics of astonishing power: pressure, buoyancy, viscosity, the propagation of waves, the beautiful nonlinearities of turbulence. It predicts everything she can measure. It has no loose ends worth losing sleep over.… Read More “The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air”
Mathematics is producing proofs faster than it has ever produced them, and mathematical progress has not accelerated. That fact is not a paradox. It is the clearest available evidence for a structural claim about artificial intelligence — one that can be stated precisely, proved in three independent ways, and, uncomfortably, does not say what most people want it to say.… Read More “No Fixed Frame Is Enough”
A few months ago I started wondering what cellular automata would look like on a more exotic lattice than the usual square or hexagonal grid. The result is tiling-patterns — a fully interactive, GPU-accelerated cellular automaton running on the Kisrhombille tiling, with a searchable rule space and over 130 hand-curated presets that produce genuinely strange and beautiful long-run dynamics.… Read More “Rosettes, Gliders, and Blooms: A Cellular Automaton on the Kisrhombille Tiling”
I’ve published a live, interactive visualization of the field at the heart of my physics research program, and you can run it in your browser right now, with nothing to install:
novaspivack.github.io/ugp-physics/visualizations/phimdl_kink_dynamics
This is not an artist’s rendering or a cartoon of the theory.… Read More “Watch a Universe’s Field Equations Run: A Live Visualization of Φ_MDL Kink Dynamics”