A conversation with Stephen Wolfram. Books: A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics: https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/a-project-to-find-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics.html A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
The Physics Project: https://www.wolframphysics.org
00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:11 Looking at Stephen Wolfram’s Educational journey 00:05:39 Things learnt in school are actually useful! 00:06:34 Particle Physics and Stephen’s early years 00:11:39 Stephen Wolfram’s first paper 00:16:19 Using computers for algebraic calculations 00:22:00 Launching his own company 00:23:00 Starting to study cellular automata 00:26:30 The importance of using technology to help advance physics 00:28:14 The advice Stephen would give to his teenage self 00:30:00 The importance of choosing the right problems 00:35:44 Stephen’s views on ‘modern’ physics 00:38:21 Ruliology and A New Kind of Science 00:40:56 Working on a generalisation of calculus? 00:45:16 Applying learnings from the Physics Project to other fields such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics 00:50:00 Physics as a remarkable export field 00:54:24 History of tools to describe the universe 00:55:17 Computation as a very general paradigm & Wolfram Language 01:00:12 Wolfram Summer Camp 01:02:40 The possibility of a special relativity of economics 01:06:21 Live streaming and open source nature of the Physics Project 01:09:18 The concept of the Ruliad 01:15:28 Taking measurements and moving through Ruliad Space? 01:22:00 Quantum mechanics and relatively - a beautiful symmetry 01:34:00 Thank you and goodbye
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