The Principle of Computational Equivalence Is Obscure

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In the space of all computers, computations with that capacity are generic in some sense. They're much sier to find than you might have thought. And thereis no way to simplify the the typical one into something that you can just leap ahead,. I mean, principle of computational equivalence, one of its predictions, in effect, is that universal computation will be ubiquitous. But it's a little bit of a different statement to say, if you are presented with this system and it is fed tis even this very simple programme, then it will already do something complicated. So it's a couple, a couple of additional steps. Yet one ofte one of the key predictions, is

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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