I think you're on to something. Rather than model each quark and gluon explicitly, you could just model probabilistic interactions at much larger scales. Maybe put in some special case handling so that if an observer within our simulated universe were to go looking for quarks and gluons, they'd find them. If they looked hard enough, some gaps might show: since subatomic particles are not actually being simulated in a continuously deterministic fashion, it would never be possible to observe both position and velocity simultaneously. An observer looking at an electron shell in two discrete moments would not be able to track a continuous orbit between them, since they'd actually just be seeing two separate expansions of what is effectively a lossy compression algorithm.
Also, it ought to be possible to model only the macroscopic dimensions explicitly, replacing the other seven microscopically enfolded dimensions with a bunch of arbitrary constants that accomplish more or less the same thing. Might drive our observers a bit batty, because those constants would appear to refer to a bunch of microscopic enfolded dimensions, which they'd never actually be able to detect.
I got the same feeling when I was studying physics and saw those constants! And now I still get it when I see the normal distribution. (e phreak me out more than pi)
I think you're on to something. Rather than model each quark and gluon explicitly, you could just model probabilistic interactions at much larger scales. Maybe put in some special case handling so that if an observer within our simulated universe were to go looking for quarks and gluons, they'd find them. If they looked hard enough, some gaps might show: since subatomic particles are not actually being simulated in a continuously deterministic fashion, it would never be possible to observe both position and velocity simultaneously. An observer looking at an electron shell in two discrete moments would not be able to track a continuous orbit between them, since they'd actually just be seeing two separate expansions of what is effectively a lossy compression algorithm.
Also, it ought to be possible to model only the macroscopic dimensions explicitly, replacing the other seven microscopically enfolded dimensions with a bunch of arbitrary constants that accomplish more or less the same thing. Might drive our observers a bit batty, because those constants would appear to refer to a bunch of microscopic enfolded dimensions, which they'd never actually be able to detect.
Right, now I'm starting to freak myself out...