Wolfram Physics Project Launch

The sheer amount of people who've fallen asleep watching another video only to wake up and find this video playing is immense

I fell asleep to a vid on the first metal lathe and woke up, several lengthy math and physics videos later. I can't wait to see what ads Google will be pitching me for the next couple of days.

I fell asleep while watching YouTube and when I woke up this is what was playing.

I COULD FALL ASLEEP TO ANYTHING ON YOUTUBE AND I ALWAYS SOMEHOW END UP WAKING UP TO A WOLFRAM VIDEO????

So we are all waking up to this video. Woke up to the part about the universe being a simulation and stayed in bed until i finished it

Anyone else woke up to this on autoplay at 2AM?

I was dreaming I was exploring a planet while some dude was talking to me about quantum computing and hyper drives and I woke up to this video.

hearing this in my sleep gave me trippy fuckin dreams... about a group of people going through a series of increasingly difficult challenges from escaping a tsunami to surviving in space. there was terror, suspense, puzzle solving, logic, death, tears. i'm already forgetting but it was my best dream in a while. no one cares but thought i'd share the experience.

I fell asleep to a Vsauce video and woke up to this vid

AMAZING. I'm here because of Javier Santaolalla one of the best Physicist of all time! I'm even Flipating! ;)

bro why the hell i wake up everytime with this video

Fell asleep watching yt and this is what I wake up to

“Different points in Branchial Space, their natural distance Metric is expressible as something as Entanglement Entropy.” Fascinating!

I fell asleep at "live stream will start shortly" Well done! Thx🎉

3:38:10 @Wolfram wow, that is a once in a generation intellectual achievement. One comment. You don't have to bake the forward direction of the update rule into your assumptions. Causal edges can indicate that two states are causally consistent, but transitions can be bidirectional. That corresponds to the microscopic time symmetry in physics. The arrow of time arises statistically because the graph is tapered at one end and wide at the other. We are big subgraphs and we drift to what we call later time because there are more causal edges leading there. That also answers why the initial condition was simple: It doesn't need to be, the causal adjacency graph tapers at one end, that we call the past, and fans out the other end that we call the future, regardless where you start. The 2nd law of thermodynamics is derived from conservation of information. The simplest graph causally consistent in the past is the big bang and the irreducible information content of the universe. The 2nd law says that states become larger and larger by iterating the causal rule, but no new information is added. There's a bit more proof and formalism to add, so I'll join and express this fully.

Thank you for writing your book ("A New Kind Of Science") Stephen, jumping right into reading it! (first time to learn about it but the last time to retroactively forget it haha peace out).

I'm not a physicist by any means but my curiosity has led me here after reading the memo. I'm not sure if this is already covered in the broader materials but the two-slit experiment may be a great example of this for the average enthusiast : - develop a sample rule to build space - illustrate how light occupies that space in discrete time steps spreading out leading to the wave pattern - show how the impact of "quantum measurement" by an observer can "freeze time" in a quantum frame leading to the slit pattern

Must say, I'm very impressed by humble Stephen Wolfram! What ever happens, if this project is leading to the unified theory or not, he is much more an inspiration than the typical physicist who is more concerned to appear as scientist, mostly by producing minor stuff which then gets blown big, who is mainly concerned of having a nice career, a nice pension, unearned reputation and not to bring physics to a new level. It's not only a waste of money also of creativity and a missed contributions to society which finances them. Think Wolfram is driven by a childlike interest, not mainly speculating to get a Nobel Prize some day. Being interested in physics since a long time, I started to detect an immense void inside the nothingness-loudspeakers in physics, who appeared ever more as emperors with no cloth, as uninspired pea counters, not having achieved much I'd say in the last 50 years, Krauss, Tyson, Carroll etc. Whereas ordinary people get impressed by some equations and complexity-talk, then putting these loudspeakers on high pedestals they don't deserve, I felt a rising skepticism towards such pretenders. We see lots of blinders in public with their nothing's. Shallow thinkers wanting to appear as new Einsteins. I think Wolfram is different here, smart, humble, interest driven, and if someone I know has the substance to expand Einsteins physics, its probably him and not the army of pea counters of orthodoxies.

ELEGANCE IN YOUR TREMENDOUS EFFORT ALONE THANK YOU FOR SUCH VERY HARD WORK.

I have the best sleeps ever when this is on in the backround!!! no joke....thank you!!