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That analogy would only make sense if you built the universe inside the telescope.
by xtracerx 7y ago
That analogy would only make sense if you built the universe inside the telescope.
- pmiller2 7y agoNo: telescopes are tools to study the universe, just as computers are tools for studying computation.
- ineedasername 7y agoI don't look at computers as tools for studying computation. Instead, they are tools for performing computation.
- ves 7y agoperhaps performing computations is to studying computation as observing the universe through a telescope is to studying it.
- vageli 7y ago> perhaps performing computations is to studying computation as observing the universe through a telescope is to studying it. This is an interesting thought, but the two seem fundamentally different in nature (active vs passive).
- ineedasername 7y agoYes, and to a certain extent, you can study computation without a digital computer. Computation can be abstracted away from the devices that perform it. You can, for example, study Big O notation and theoretical computational complexity of algorithms without actually using a computer.
- jamessb 7y ago"A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build." - Fred Brooks