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This is a very interesting question. What if the universe is stateless and any state at time T can be calculated in O(1)

What if we just lack the expressiveness or the initial conditions to model a stateless universe?

A fun consequence of stateless universe would be that you can rewind, fast forward, loop, speed up, slow down time at no extra cost.



There are some physical systems (mathematically, "Hamiltonians") which have this "stateless" property. However, if the time/energy uncertainty principle is true, simulating time T in O(1) cannot be possible in general unless BQP=PSPACE (the unlikely idea that quantum computers can efficiently solve any problem that can be stored in polynomial amounts of memory). See this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09619




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