Is It More or Less Accurate Than Reverse Engineering?

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i used to do sort of main stream, standard physics back in the late 19 seventies, early 19 eighties. i had been working on building my first computer language as a forerunner of mathematical mortan language. And so that experience got me into this idea of just figure out the most minimal model and see what it does. That's what i was trying to do with salerautometa. Because that was and is not evident by no means self-sustaining or anything like that. I mean, that'ssort of the ultimate type of idea. No, just make it, you know, absolutely minimal. Now we'll talk about some other neat ideas now that we

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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