What Is the Hamiltonian in the Schurdenger Equation?

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Energy is basically the amount of activity in the hypograph. Momentum is the flux of causal edges through time, like hyper surfaces. Energy is something that has been summed over all possible branches in this multi-way grathway graph. In our models, the elementary length is much smaller than the plank length. And the fact that what you observe is this thing called a 'multi-way causal graf' This is just a footnote jitthisti is tjith it's not about thunderbolts but lightning strike. Not a very small quantum thing.

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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