The Relationship Between C P T and Variance in Variants

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C p t in variants is tightly connected to laurence in variants, the invariants under boosts. And they'll be at some point, even if it's very very experimentally inaccessible, where it will break down absolutely. There are very good experimental on laurence violation from different propagation speeds of photons,. But as you said, your scale is much tinier, so that we might not be anywhere close right? I think the thing that i'm most interested in with respect to those experiments is finding a kind of dimension fluctuations in the universe.

It’s not easy, figuring out the fundamental laws of physics. It’s even harder when your chosen methodology is to essentially start from scratch, positing a simple underlying system and a simple set of rules for it, and hope that everything we know about the world somehow pops out. That’s the project being undertaken by Stephen Wolfram and his collaborators, who are working with a kind of discrete system called “hypergraphs.” We talk about what the basic ideas are, why one would choose this particular angle of attack on fundamental physics, and how ideas like quantum mechanics and general relativity might emerge from this simple framework.

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Stephen Wolfram received his Ph.D. in physics from Caltech. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. Among his awards are a MacArthur Fellowship. Among his books is A New Kind of Science. He recently launched the Wolfram Physics Project.

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