Free fall and cellular automata

Pablo Arrighi
(University Aix-Marseille and LIF)
Gilles Dowek
(Inria and LSV)

Three reasonable hypotheses lead to the thesis that physical phenomena can be described and simulated with cellular automata. In this work, we attempt to describe the motion of a particle upon which a constant force is applied, with a cellular automaton, in Newtonian physics, in Special Relativity, and in General Relativity. The results are very different for these three theories.

Invited Presentation in César A. Muñoz and Jorge A. Pérez: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2015), Cali, Colombia, October 28, 2015, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 204, pp. 1–10.
Published: 2nd March 2016.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.204.1 bibtex PDF
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