I am not even involved in your conversation here, but I must, at least at this point cheer on Stephen Wolfram. Although I am a bit disappointed that he did not invent Wolframite. Here is a nice clip from Wkipedia.
Stephen Wolfram. In Chapter 9 of A New Kind of Science,[4] Stephen Wolfram presents an outline of a multiverse automaton. Below the Planck scale, there is an informational substrate that allows the build-up of time, space, and energy by means of an updating parameter. The updating parameter for the multiverse is analogous to time via a mathematical isomorphism, but the updating parameter involves a decomposition across alternate universes. The informational substrate consists of network nodes that can simulate random network models and Feynman path integrals. In physical reality, both energy and spacetime are secondary features. The most fundamental feature of reality is signal propagation caused by an updating parameter acting upon network nodes. The multiverse automaton has a model consisting of informational substrate, an updating parameter, a few simple rules, and a method for deriving all of quantum field theory and general relativity theory, The totally finite nature of the model implies the existence of weird, alternate-universe forces that might, or might not, be too small for empirical detection. -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 27, 2015 1:36 pm Subject: Re: The scope of physical law and its relationship to the substitution level On Wed, May 27, 2015 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > Citing Wolfram is a per-authority argument. That is not valid. But citing Bruno Marchal as an authority is valid?? If you say one thing and Wolfram says another I'll put my money on Wolfram. Who wouldn't? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
