Podcast Episodes

How to find causally invariant rules with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 38

Causal invariance is a crucial characteristic for any rule of Wolfram Physics.

According to Wolfram MathWorld, if a rule is causally invariant, then “no matter which evolution is chosen for a system, …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

How to knit the universe

Episode 37

Now that I’ve introduced you to the different kinds of edges that might make up a hypergraph – unary, binary and ternary edges, as well as loops and self-loops – we can have some fun.

Some of rules in…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Animating the hypergraph with Dugan Hammock

Episode 36

Dugan Hammock creates beautiful animations of three-dimensional cross-sections through four-dimensional spaces.

But his animations aren’t mere mathematical abstractions. He has also applied his geomet…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Causal invariance versus confluence with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 35

Causal invariance is one of the most important concepts in the Wolfram model... and one of the most difficult to capture.

So I really wanted to hear Jonathan Gorard’s take on it.

In this excerpt from o…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Loops and self‑loops in the hypergraph

Episode 34

So many of the most complex and most promising graphs and hypergraphs of Wolfram Physics involve loops and self-loops.

They can play a crucial role in the evolution of graphs and hypergraphs... which …

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Living in the fourth dimension with Dugan Hammock

Episode 33

Dugan Hammock lives in the fourth dimension.

As Jonathan Gorard mentioned in our recent conversation on How to draw the hypergraph in Wolfram Physics, Dugan has worked on plotting the evolution of the…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Why I changed my mind about computational irreducibility with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 32

Computational irreducibility means that there are no shortcuts when we apply rules to the hypergraph.

I used to think that our existing theories of physics, such as general relativity and quantum mech…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

What’s beyond the universe?

Episode 31

There are two questions about Wolfram Physics I’m asked a lot:

What’s beyond the hypergraph?

And what’s between the nodes and edges of the hypergraph?

There’s a simple answer to this question.

Nothing.

Th…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

How to draw the hypergraph in Wolfram Physics with Jonathan Gorard

Episode 30

The hypergraph is the universe.

So if we want to see the universe, we need only draw the hypergraph.

The question is: how?

The nodes and edges of the hypergraph are determined by the rules of Wolfram Ph…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

What is the Big Bang in Wolfram’s universe?

Episode 29

What is the Big Bang in Wolfram Physics?

There’s a straightforward answer to that question.

It’s the point in the evolution of the universe where the hypergraph goes from nothing to something.

It’s the …

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago