The Last Theory What is a particle in Wolfram’s universe?
It’s pretty easy to see how three-dimensional space might arise from Wolfram Physics.
The hypergraph kinda looks like space, and, for some rules, it kinda looks like it’s three-dimensional.
But our universe isn’t just empty three-dimensional space.
It’s mostly empty space, but there are also particles moving through that space: photons, neutrinos, electrons, quarks.
Sometimes, these particles interact, annihilating each other and producing new particles.
If Wolfram Physics is to be a successful model of our universe, it must, of course, model these elementary particles and their interactions.
So where are the particles in the hypergraph?
What is a particle in Wolfram’s universe?
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Animations:
- Thanks to Alan Dewar for permission to use his excellent implementation of Conway’s Game of Life for many of the animations in the video
- Thanks also to Chris Rowett for permission to use his Life Viewer, a beautiful implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which I used for the greyship animation in the video and image in the thumbnail
- Another implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which reproduces the Life Lexicon from ConwayLife.com, is at playgameoflife.com
Sources:
- Talking of ConwayLife.com, that’s another incredible resource for information on Conway’s Game of Life
Tools:
- I created an RLE to text converter to convert Run Length Encoded patterns to plain text format
Images:
- John H Conway 2005 by Thane Plambeck licensed under CC BY 2.0
Sounds:
- Crickets choir by Serg Childed licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of the Open Web Mind
I release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.
The full article is here.
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