The following questions are addressed in this chapter. They are better discussed in a group to allow a variety of opinions to emerge. The relevant section link is given after each question:
1. Can information be defined in purely physical terms? Do so, or explain why it isn’t possible. (QR2.1.2)
2. Does a hologram of past physical events replay reality? What is missing? (QR2.1.3)
3. Can one copy a physical state? What about a physical event? What about a quantum state? (QR2.1.4)
4. How does quantum processing differ from physical processing? Why is it so powerful? (QR2.1.5)
5. If the physical world is digital what is its resolution and refresh rate? (QR2.2.1)
6. State Zeno’s paradoxes. How does physics resolve them? What does resolve them? (QR2.2.1)
7. Is space something or nothing? If nothing, what transmits light? If something, what is it? (QR2.2.2)
8. Would a network generating our universe be centralized or distributed? Explain why. (QR2.2.4)
9. Why do circular dimensions explain our space better than linear dimensions? (QR2.2.5)
10. How can space expand everywhere at once, as physics says? (QR2.2.6)
11. State one disadvantage of a polar space. Why doesn’t it matter for our space? (QR2.2.7)
12. What does a dimension outside our space imply that one curled up within it doesn’t? (QR2.2.8)
13. If reality has a fourth dimension, why can’t we enter it? (QR2.2.8)
14. If light is a transverse wave, like a wave on a lake, on what surface is it vibrating? (QR2.2.9)
15. Traveling at near light speed slows down time, so would you live longer? (QR2.3.1)
16. Is there any evidence for time travel in physics? Why is it unlikely? (QR2.3.2)
17. Why can’t quantum entities go back and forth in time? (QR2.3.3)
18. Is there an alternative to the block theory of time? What is it? QR2.3.4)
19. Why is cosmic background radiation from the early universe still all around us? (QR2.4.1)
20. What caused the initial inflation of the universe and what stopped it? (QR2.4.2)
21. What happens if a data transfer in a simulation fails? How do our systems avoid this? (QR2.4.3)
22. How could a quantum network avoid transfer failures? (QR2.4.4)
23. Is the vacuum of space empty or full, and if full, what is it full of? (QR2.4.5)
24. Why is theoretical physics no longer advancing? (QR2.5.1)
25. What can science do when a theory no longer generates new knowledge? (QR2.5.2)
26. Do the equations of quantum theory describe what is imaginary or real? Justify. (QR2.5.3)
27. Why do physicists call what quantum theory describes imaginary when it predicts physical events? (QR2.5.3)
28. Is quantum realism a God theory? Why or why not? (QR2.5.3)
29. If quantum waves are processing waves, what is a physical event? (QR2.5.4)