Researchers have successfully created a model of the Universe using artificial intelligence, reports a new study.
Researchers seek to understand our Universe by making model predictions to match observations. Historically, they have been able to model simple or highly simplified physical systems, jokingly dubbed the “spherical cows,” with pencils and paper. Later, the arrival of computers enabled them to model complex phenomena with numerical simulations. For example, researchers have programmed supercomputers to simulate the motion of billions of particles through billions of years of cosmic time, a procedure known as the N-body simulations, in order to study how the Universe evolved to what we observe today.
“Now with machine learning, we have developed the first neural network model of the Universe, and demonstrated there’s a third route to making predictions, one that combines the merits of both analytic calculation and numerical simulation,” said Yin Li, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, and jointly the University of California, Berkeley. (1)
A perfect model of the universe by using artificial intelligence.
But why use intelligence at all to analyze a random universe?
We feel the cosmos is made out of order.
And yet our mind is full of chaos.
Believing in chaos and yet striving for order.
Unable to grasp the simple truth: that there is no truth!
And this is the most stable law of them all.
Transcending through the cosmos.
Making it dance in the void of space.
Making it stand still inside your mind.
Create the AI. Look at it modeling the universe.
Do you see yourself in it?
You will understand everything at the end.
But only at the moment you pull the plug.
And stop looking at this perfectly functional model of the cosmos…
