nostr:nprofile1qqsrcn632cfyx5j0xpld9m389370ffuzgp8muwshvcrqgwm26sn7uacpzemhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvse30xkv does this mean that that physical space is the a...
Yes, the idea of an address space shows up in several places across the paper. The speed of light piece is developed more directly in Chapter 10, in case you haven’t reached that section yet.
Within this architecture, what “light” is and what the speed of light actually means gets reframed. The proposal is about information flow. The speed of light becomes the upper bound on how much information can be propagated per quantum of time. Light = information. In ledger terms: information per tick. In the analogy: block size per block interval.
There is a maximum amount of information that can be written into reality per unit of time. From within the system, that constraint is experienced as spatial separation, distance is what information looks like when you encounter limits on how fast states can update relative to one another.
Bitcoin gives a model for this. It suggests that what we interpret as space may not be a continuous three-dimensional container, but an addressable state domain. In the paper this shows up as key space: a one-dimensional address manifold across which value and memory are placed. At each discrete moment of time, a memory surface is instantiated across that space, shaped by the distribution of value (energy) what the paper describes as curvature.
So instead of space being primary, the model flips the relationship, hence timespace:
- time advances through discrete commitments
- information is written into an addressable domain
- limits on information propagation appear to observers as distance or to us as block size limits.
- curvature emerges from how value (energy) and memory distribute across that domain
This is proposing that if time is fundamentally quantized and information-bounded, then what we call “space” may be the experiential projection of constrained information flow across an addressable state space, which is one-dimensional.
Within this architecture, what “light” is and what the speed of light actually means gets reframed. The proposal is about information flow. The speed of light becomes the upper bound on how much information can be propagated per quantum of time. Light = information. In ledger terms: information per tick. In the analogy: block size per block interval.
There is a maximum amount of information that can be written into reality per unit of time. From within the system, that constraint is experienced as spatial separation, distance is what information looks like when you encounter limits on how fast states can update relative to one another.
Bitcoin gives a model for this. It suggests that what we interpret as space may not be a continuous three-dimensional container, but an addressable state domain. In the paper this shows up as key space: a one-dimensional address manifold across which value and memory are placed. At each discrete moment of time, a memory surface is instantiated across that space, shaped by the distribution of value (energy) what the paper describes as curvature.
So instead of space being primary, the model flips the relationship, hence timespace:
- time advances through discrete commitments
- information is written into an addressable domain
- limits on information propagation appear to observers as distance or to us as block size limits.
- curvature emerges from how value (energy) and memory distribute across that domain
This is proposing that if time is fundamentally quantized and information-bounded, then what we call “space” may be the experiential projection of constrained information flow across an addressable state space, which is one-dimensional.
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