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Could there be a sort of “Molecular Destiny”?
Let's say we start with the Big Bang. Every bit of matter started from this event. Therefore, given EVERY variable (every particle, movements of particles, weights, times, etc) and an INFINITE amount ...
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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics in cosmological N-body simulations
What is the role of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in cosmological N-body simulations like the Millenium Run (performed with Gadget-2)?
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How many bits are needed to simulate the universe?
This is not the same as: How many bytes can the observable universe store?
The Bekenstein bound tells us how many bits of data can be stored in a space. Using this value, we can determine the ...