2 weeks Ago
What Science May Be We can embody all of science into a single fully connected text file. Scientists would contribute blocks to this file like they now contribute papers to journals and datasets to databases. I estimate all of science would fit in 1 billion pages.
If printed this would extend from here to the Moon. This file would allow everyone to get state-of-the-art, logical answers to any question by querying every scientist, living and dead, all at once, on their own machines. * How do we connect every word? A new language consisting of a simple universal syntax that denotes words and recursive blocks, along with type definitions called parsers, creates an invisible wired grid.
A Reader moves down the blocks of the file, encountering new parsers or pattern matching words and blocks to existing parsers, and then loads blocks into memory for later computations. All words are typed and the file is mostly structured data, with exceptions for sections of visual and free-text data, called groundings. This file would be topologically ordered, meaning concepts are defined only out of already defined concepts.
For example, addition and uncertainty would be defined before quantum...
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