I love everything about fractals, chaos theory, and so on, and Wolfram's latest idea here seems really rich and potentially highly explanatory.
But let's say he can fairly convincingly say, we found it, this is the hypergraph rule to rule them all, it leads to gravity and quantum mechanics, and so on. The next question would be, well, what's so special about that rule? What caused that one to be selected among the many to lead to our present universe? It's the same question we can ask about the null hypothesis: why these physical laws, and not others? Well, one could say, all of them exist somewhere, we just happen to exist in this one (which perhaps is the only one that could support us). But if it's true that they all (the infinity of them) exist somewhere, we're back in platonia (at least with regard to Wolfram's universes). And if that's the case, the hypergraph iteration is just a program running on the dovetailer. Terren On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:24 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.pcgamer.com/physicist-stephen-wolfram-thinks-hes-on-to-a-theory-of-everything-and-he-wants-help-simulating-the-universe/ > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/360ab05a-5985-43fa-aa44-6549e15e30b4%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/360ab05a-5985-43fa-aa44-6549e15e30b4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA_0fKSGPd3YK2CuZbSrnb7PgfDKb1N__v8R2m%3DZknrWWg%40mail.gmail.com.
