[Bored chemist]

I am stating a fact: anything that can be described by a mathematical formula is a computer.

Bollocks.
Show me a dictionary that agrees with your viewpoint.

[talanum1 (OP)]

Anything that can be represented by a formula gives an output for a given input, like a computer. This is what I mean by the word.

[Bored chemist]

This is what I mean by the word.

It isn't what anyone else mean, is it.
It's also useless because I can describe a cardboard box or a bowl of spaghetti or a star or whatever as a set of equations.
According to you , everything is a computer.
So you have just changed the meaning of the word "computer" to equate to the word "thing"

That's stupid.
Please stop doing it.
But

[talanum1 (OP)]

If you don't allow particles to carry their properties, you must allow the properties to be encoded in space and every particle referred to by a serial number (which the particle will have to carry). It cannot be encoded into the fields because they are just numbers associated to every point in space.

[Bored chemist]

My coffee mug is blue.
That's a property of the mug.
It doesn't need "encoding".
It isn't "written" into the space round the mug either.

This idea that things need to be "encoded" is a fantasy of yours.

[talanum1 (OP)]

My coffee mug is blue.
That's a property of the mug.
It doesn't need "encoding".

It needs to be encoded into the mug: how else are blue photons going to know to be reflected while other photons need to know to be absorbed?

[Bored chemist]

My coffee mug is blue.
That's a property of the mug.
It doesn't need "encoding".

It needs to be encoded into the mug: how else are blue photons going to know to be reflected while other photons need to know to be absorbed?

Because the mug is blue, not because it has a label saying "I am blue".

[Kryptid]

how else are blue photons going to know to be reflected while other photons need to know to be absorbed?

Either electron energy levels or the size of physical structures on the cup's surface (if its color works like that in butterfly wings).

[talanum1 (OP)]

Either electron energy levels or the size of physical structures on the cup's surface

Then it must be encoded into the atoms what energy values are open and what filled, and the size of the gaps between them.

[Bored chemist]

Either electron energy levels or the size of physical structures on the cup's surface

Then it must be encoded into the atoms what energy values are open and what filled, and the size of the gaps between them.

Why are you calling this an "encoding"?

[talanum1 (OP)]

Why are you calling this an "encoding"?

I mean the structure of the atom must be something the photon can read. Forget that I called it "encoding".

[Origin]

I mean the structure of the atom must be something the photon can read.

Photons are illiterate.

[talanum1 (OP)]

This is why I say the Universe is a computer: the photon or space must be able to compute the excited states energy of an atom from the atomic number of the atom.

[Bored chemist]

This is why I say the Universe is a computer

You say everything is a computer so that doesn't tell you anything.

[alancalverd]

It's entirely logical.

A computer does things when it is working
A computer does nothing when it is not working
Everything else either does stuff (definition of working) or not
Therefore everything is a computer.

Come on, BC, give the guy some credit. He has discovered a profound universal truth.

[talanum1 (OP)]

There is a way of telling if you are spinning along with a bucket of water or if the bucket is stationary and you are spinning. Thus an absolute rest frame exists.

[Kryptid]

There is a way of telling if you are spinning along with a bucket of water or if the bucket is stationary and you are spinning. Thus an absolute rest frame exists.

That is accelerated motion, not inertial motion. Accelerated motion is absolute, whereas inertial motion is relative.

[Bored chemist]

There is a way of telling if you are spinning along with a bucket of water or if the bucket is stationary and you are spinning. Thus an absolute rest frame exists.

No
All you have done there is show that acceleration is not the same as velocity.