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About this experiment

One list, one world. The words run from one to reality bites back, in the order they were given. Each gets a form in the same reversible world of bits, the lattice gas of World first, built from the words before it. Most plates define a word by running it. Seven carry a prediction written before the run; four held, three failed in part.

Method and limits

The world is the HPP lattice gas (Hardy, de Pazzis and Pomeau, 1973) on a torus: four bits per site, one per direction; a site holding exactly two head-on particles turns them 90°, then every particle moves one site. Walls reverse particles; mirrors turn them. Every step is a one-to-one map on the world's states. Predictions P1–P7 were committed before any simulation existed; ten structural checks (C1–C10) hold by construction and all pass. Everything on this page is computed in the browser from the same law, except the registered results, which are the numbers from the registered runs. The world is a lattice gas with space, time and a speed limit built in, and more conservation laws than a real gas: what it shows about dimension, entropy and causes is shown for this world.