Comment by gumby
2 years ago
> The real question is, are we running on bare metal, in a VM, or in a container?
We can't be running on the bare hardware; there is clearly an OS enforcing the hardware abstraction (e.g. every electron is identical).
But is each universe its own process? What happens if you fork()?
> every electron is identical
That's an illusion; there is only one electron.
That’s how the kernel implements it anyway; every time you do a syscall to look at it you get a different pointer to the same 'struct lepton'.
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Universe is a quantum computer, forking every Planck interval.