An easy and practical way to understand a complex universe is to simulate it, let its inhabitants contact you, and then quiz them about how they navigate it
"conservation of energy? uhuh wild, and uh how large are your being-patterns again, in terms of fundamental lengths? wow"
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simulator arxiv is probably full of physics papers that despite titles like with "an autoethnography of living in universe [kolmogorov description]" are quite serious
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