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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Data Structure of the Universe
The universe is made of discreet elements and relations between those elements, which we can think of as being kind of lines joining them. So there's some dots and there's some lines. They make a graph, or a hyperograph, i guess. There's a rule, there's a rule for up dating, to go from one collection of dots and lines to the next one, and then we just iterate that forever. And the whole universe comes out of that. It's very nice. That's the idea. I could have figured this out 25 years ago. In the end, it doesn't make much of a difference.
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