Publishing findings that amount to an admission that you and others spent a fortune studying a dead end is career suicide and guarantees your excommunication from the realm of study and polite society. If a popular theory is wrong, some unlucky martyr must first introduce incontrovertible proof and then humanity must wait for the entire generation of practitioners whose careers are built on it to die.
Although to be fair, nothing above regular (that I'm aware of, it's been a while) requires infinite space, just unlimited space... you can always make a real Turing machine as long as you keep adding more tape whenever it needs it.
It's comforting, at least, that the electorate sends people who will keep important agencies like the EPA & FDA healthy and who will only appoint the best & brightest to run them.
For context, here’s an old article about how he kept asking his advisors about actions against Venezuela throughout his first term. Old flames never die.
I see what you're saying, but I think it's a misunderstanding. 1D here only means that there's some state where the active cells are confined to one row — but one row within the ordinary 2D GoL plane. I'm sure the next iteration leaps off the line immediately. Search for "Blinker" here to imagine how it could start spreading off the line.
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