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Wolframs Theory Of The Universe Physics Project Article Review
# Pitch
https://blog.wolfram.com/
https://blog.wolfram.com/2020/04/14/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
(Also posted below)
Computational generation of "universes".
## related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_rewriting_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence_(abstract_rewriting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature_of_Riemannian_manifolds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
Not mentioned (afaik) but conceptually relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplacian_matrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_Turing_machine
# Stephen Wolfram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram
https://www.stephenwolfram.com/
https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram
papers
https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/?cat=all
Automata starting with 1982
## Previous
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
https://www.youtube.com/user/WolframResearch/
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
https://youtu.be/60P7717-XOQ
### Wolfram Language / Mathematica (currently v12+) / WolframAlpha
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/04/version-12-launches-today-big-jump-for-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/
https://community.wolfram.com/groups
# Project
https://www.wolframphysics.org/
https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/a-project-to-find-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics.html
Backstory page
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/how-we-got-here-the-backstory-of-the-wolfram-physics-project/
100 related pages in NKS
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-physics/
### papers / technical introduction
https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-documents/
2 papers (Jonathan Gorard):
* https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/some-relativistic-and-gravitational-properties-of-the-wolfram-model.pdf
* https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/some-quantum-mechanical-properties-of-the-wolfram-model.pdf
Worlfram main ("448-page technical exposition"):
https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/introduction/
- e.g. Ch 4.1, "Recognizable Geometry":
+ https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/limiting-behavior-and-emergent-geometry/recognizable-geometry/
See "Universes": https://www.wolframphysics.org/universes/
# Q&A
https://www.wolframphysics.org/questions/general/
# Blog/Article
https://blog.wolfram.com/2020/04/14/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/how-we-got-here-the-backstory-of-the-wolfram-physics-project/
https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/typical-behaviors/the-number-of-possible-rules/
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