Podcast Episodes

Why scientific theories need not make predictions

Episode 48

In my exploration of Wolfram Physics, I’ve come across one objection more than any other.

Over and over again, people have told me that the Wolfram model must be rejected because it makes no predictio…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

How to derive general relativity from Wolfram Physics with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 47

Here’s a masterclass from Jonathan Gorard.

One of the most compelling results to come out of the Wolfram Physics is Jonathan’s derivation of the Einstein equations from the hypergraph.

Whenever I hear …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

How to derive quantum mechanics from Wolfram Physics with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 46

Here’s the first of two crucial excerpts from my conversation with Jonathan Gorard.

The core idea of Wolfram Physics is that we can model the universe as a hypergraph. If we want this idea to be taken…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Peer review is suffocating science

Episode 45

You know peer review, right?

It’s the way academics check each other’s research papers.

It ensures that only the good ones are published and prevents the bad ones from getting through.

Right?

Wrong.

Peer …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Is the universe a tautology? with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 44

“Sorry, this is now getting very metaphysical,” says Jonathan Gorard part way through this excerpt from our conversation.

We start by talking about applying more than one rule to the hypergraph to cre…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

What is a particle in Wolfram’s universe?

Episode 43

It’s pretty easy to see how three-dimensional space might arise from Wolfram Physics.

The hypergraph kinda looks like space, and, for some rules, it kinda looks like it’s three-dimensional.

But our uni…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

One rule to rule them all? with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 42

In the early days of the Wolfram Physics Project, Stephen Wolfram seemed to be seeking a single rule that, when applied to the hypergraph, could generate our universe.

More recently, however, Wolfram …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

John von Neumann and the art of being there

Episode 41

John von Neumann might be the most important figure in Wolfram Physics prehistory.

Whenever any of the most important prerequisites to Wolfram Physics were happening – quantum mechanics, Gödel’s theor…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

How to find interesting and plausible rules with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 40

The Wolfram model allows an infinite number of rules.

Some of these rules generate interesting universes that are complex and connected, some of these rules generate plausible universes that look a li…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Why has there been no progress in physics since 1973?

Episode 39

The twentieth century was a truly exciting time in physics.

From 1905 to 1973, we made extraordinary progress probing the mysteries of the universe: special relativity, general relativity, quantum mec…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago