At 03:01 PM 5/19/02, you wrote: >http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/wolfram.html > >"I've got to ask you," I say. "How long do you envision this rule of the >universe to be?" >"I'm guessing it's really very short." >"Like how long?" >"I don't know. In Mathematica, for example, perhaps three, four lines of >code." >"Four lines of code?" >"That's what I'm guessing. I mean, I don't really know, but I think >there's no obvious evidence that it's any longer than that. Now, in a >sense, it will be short if Mathematica was a well-designed language. It >will be longer if it doesn't happen to be as well-designed, in the sense >that that doesn't happen to be the way the universe works. But we're not >looking at 25,000 lines of code or something. We're looking at a handful >of lines of code." >"So it's not like Windows?" >"No." Wolfram laughs. "It's not like Windows. It's going to be something >small, I think. I've certainly wondered. You ask about the theological >questions and things. I think there will be a time when one will sort of >hold those lines of code in one's hand, and that is the universe. And >what does this mean? You know, how do we then feel about things, if this >whole thing is just five lines of code or something? And in a sense, that >is a very unsatisfying conclusion, that sort of everything that's going >on, everything out there, is all just this five lines of code we're >running."
In the beginning was the WORD. And the WORD was misspelled. So the WORLD never compiled. -- Ronn! :) Oops! Maru
