Quantum Mechanics

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There's an understanding in traditional of computing that there are some problems for which quanta mechanic certainly gives you a speed up. And so our best models, so far, as jonathan's completion interpretation, that tem ar, that involves these potential lemmas being produced and son there is no way to do it yet. Is actually pretty difficult in practice with actual experiments. But people have said, if we do these experiments well enough, ll become the mathematical idealization that von heman and others made about how measurement works. i don't think that's going to be true.

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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