Terence Tao

And what it would do, its purpose in life, it's programmed so that it would create a smaller version of itself in some sort of cold state.

It wouldn't start just yet.

Once it's ready, the big robot, Configured Water, would transfer all its energy into the smaller configuration and then power down.

And then it'd clean itself up.

And then what's left is this newer state, which would then turn on and do the same thing, but smaller and faster.

And then the equation has a certain scaling symmetry.

Once you do that, it can just keep iterating.

So this, in principle, would create a blur for the actual Navier-Stokes.

And this is what I managed to accomplish for this average Navier-Stokes.

So it provided this sort of roadmap to solve the problem.

Now, this is...

a pipe dream because there are so many things that are missing for this to actually be a reality.

So I can't create these basic logic gates.

I don't have these special configurations of water.

I mean, there's candidates that include vortex rings that might possibly work, but also, you know, analog computing is really nasty compared to digital computing.

I mean, because there's always errors.

You have to do a lot of error correction.

along the way.

I don't know how to completely power down the big machine so that it doesn't interfere with the running of the smaller machine.

But everything in principle can happen.