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What Time Is (Quest for Entropy #12)
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Quest for Entropy #12: time is not a thing that flows. It's a comparison — and the structure a comparison needs turns out to be the one my own industry invented for itself.
I have not derived relativity from computer science. I've shown that the causal structure relativity protects, and the causal structure distributed systems invent for themselves, are the same mathematical object — which is not a discovery of mine, it's a lineage that goes back to Lamport's own footnotes and forward into causal set theory. The demo is a toy with no metric, no invariant light speed and no gravity. Nothing here is a claim about how nature is built. It's a claim about what "time" has to mean if measurement is always comparison.
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The author is a software architect, not a physicist. The direction, the questions and the calls are his; the heavy lifting - the math, the physics checks, the code, the sums - is AI. Every experiment declares its pass marks before it runs, a mark may be made harder afterwards but never softer, results are challenged by independent adversarial AI review, and every mistake caught goes into a public honesty ledger. Every number is printed by code included in the companion archive. Article text and figures: CC BY 4.0. Code in the companion archive: MIT.
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- Continues
- 10.5281/zenodo.21998255 (DOI)
- Is identical to
- https://questforentropy.substack.com/p/what-time-is (URL)
- Is supplemented by
- https://github.com/masteris777/quest-for-entropy-what-time-is (URL)