Wolfram Physics Project Launch

The sheer amount of people who've fallen asleep watching another video only to wake up and find this video playing is immense

I fell asleep to a vid on the first metal lathe and woke up, several lengthy math and physics videos later. I can't wait to see what ads Google will be pitching me for the next couple of days.

I COULD FALL ASLEEP TO ANYTHING ON KRplus AND I ALWAYS SOMEHOW END UP WAKING UP TO A WOLFRAM VIDEO????

I fell asleep while watching KRplus and when I woke up this is what was playing.

So we are all waking up to this video.
Woke up to the part about the universe being a simulation and stayed in bed until i finished it

Anyone else woke up to this on autoplay at 2AM?

I was dreaming I was exploring a planet while some dude was talking to me about quantum computing and hyper drives and I woke up to this video.

I fell asleep to a Vsauce video and woke up to this vid

hearing this in my sleep gave me trippy fuckin dreams... about a group of people going through a series of increasingly difficult challenges from escaping a tsunami to surviving in space. there was terror, suspense, puzzle solving, logic, death, tears. i'm already forgetting but it was my best dream in a while. no one cares but thought i'd share the experience.

bro why the hell i wake up everytime with this video

Fell asleep watching yt and this is what I wake up to

“Different points in Branchial Space, their natural distance Metric is expressible as something as Entanglement Entropy.”
Fascinating!

AMAZING. I'm here because of Javier Santaolalla one of the best Physicist of all time! I'm even Flipating! ;)

This is what it would have been like if someone like Newton or Einstein would have held podcasts. I feel truly privileged to be able to take part in this. Thank you Stephen!

I have the best sleeps ever when this is on in the backround!!! no joke....thank you!!

Thank you for writing your book ("A New Kind Of Science") Stephen, jumping right into reading it! (first time to learn about it but the last time to retroactively forget it haha peace out).

I fell asleep at "live stream will start shortly"
Well done! Thx🎉

I'm not a physicist by any means but my curiosity has led me here after reading the memo. I'm not sure if this is already covered in the broader materials but the two-slit experiment may be a great example of this for the average enthusiast :
- develop a sample rule to build space
- illustrate how light occupies that space in discrete time steps spreading out leading to the wave pattern
- show how the impact of "quantum measurement" by an observer can "freeze time" in a quantum frame leading to the slit pattern

3:38:10 @Wolfram wow, that is a once in a generation intellectual achievement. One comment. You don't have to bake the forward direction of the update rule into your assumptions. Causal edges can indicate that two states are causally consistent, but transitions can be bidirectional. That corresponds to the microscopic time symmetry in physics. The arrow of time arises statistically because the graph is tapered at one end and wide at the other. We are big subgraphs and we drift to what we call later time because there are more causal edges leading there. That also answers why the initial condition was simple: It doesn't need to be, the causal adjacency graph tapers at one end, that we call the past, and fans out the other end that we call the future, regardless where you start. The 2nd law of thermodynamics is derived from conservation of information. The simplest graph causally consistent in the past is the big bang and the irreducible information content of the universe. The 2nd law says that states become larger and larger by iterating the causal rule, but no new information is added. There's a bit more proof and formalism to add, so I'll join and express this fully.

Must say, I'm very impressed by humble Stephen Wolfram!
What ever happens, if this project is leading to the unified theory or not, he is much more an inspiration than the typical physicist who is more concerned to appear as scientist, mostly by producing minor stuff which then gets blown big, who is mainly concerned of having a nice career, a nice pension, unearned reputation and not to bring physics to a new level. It's not only a waste of money also of creativity and a missed contributions to society which finances them.
Think Wolfram is driven by a childlike interest, not mainly speculating to get a Nobel Prize some day. Being interested in physics since a long time, I started to detect an immense void inside the nothingness-loudspeakers in physics, who appeared ever more as emperors with no cloth, as uninspired pea counters, not having achieved much I'd say in the last 50 years, Krauss, Tyson, Carroll etc. Whereas ordinary people get impressed by some equations and complexity-talk, then putting these loudspeakers on high pedestals they don't deserve, I felt a rising skepticism towards such pretenders. We see lots of blinders in public with their nothing's. Shallow thinkers wanting to appear as new Einsteins.
I think Wolfram is different here, smart, humble, interest driven, and if someone I know has the substance to expand Einsteins physics, its probably him and not the army of pea counters of orthodoxies.

Unlike other people in the comment section. I didn’t fell asleep. Just turned off phone and after few minutes KRplus started playing this by itself!

I woke up to this playing on my phone….

Talking about intellectually demanding topics for almost 4 hours straight without a drop in energy levels... impressive. Even more considering Stephen's age.

coming from lex :)

i like the way this sort of computational approach lends itself to a better understanding of entropy, you can see how it might be balanced with naturally occurring tendencies toward order and synchronisation

50:30 this explanation of special relativity is truly amazing! Even as a professional physicist, I have not heard about this before. And it makes a lot of sense to me.

This idea has been cooking in your head all these years -- you have a very powerful subconscious mind sir!

Love the project and am actively contributing. Please keep up with the Livestreams Stephen, we need these to develop our intuitive sense of how to build Universal models and experiment. Eager to see this develop further, I am optimistic this has big promise for physics and humankind hopefully as well :)

ELEGANCE IN YOUR TREMENDOUS EFFORT ALONE THANK YOU FOR SUCH VERY HARD WORK.

This work is just pure, and revolutionary, so inspirational, dude 1:40:44 “ that means that the particles are not just there in space, and then curl, its the space that form the particles” 🤯

Would absolutely recommend this to anyone who wants to fall asleep while listening to something that doesn’t make him feel alone, and doesn’t make him overthink in silence

Yea i really got inspired like that i saw many people online playing with cellular automaton and various versions of those and you could really see complexity in it and recognize parts of the world in them and that is what really attracted me to them.

A WOLF with a lot of RAM memory. Thanks Wolfram
❤️

Best idea, the beginning of the theory of everything. you make my day. History in real time. Awesome.

I see some similarities with Donald Hoffman's work. I would love to see the two projects converge into the same model.

I found this video on my phone when I woke up, now I’m gonna watch it all!

So exciting to learn about! Thank you

Amazing work. Truly inspiring

This is so wild, I can't even process it.

How I wish I'd found this at the beginning. So much catching up to do 😯

29:50 talks about - we haven't found particles in the more complicated rules - hope to do that in next few weeks

Hello and thank you for doing this 💪👏❤️

I saw you on lex’s show, what you said about special relativity explained by different update speeds for nodes has been keeping me up at night. I’m back for more!

I am getting a feeling of Quasi-Crystals, Lie Groups, Garrett Lisi, mixed with Syntax analysis, State diagrams, and theory of abstract languages with Finite State Automata. Also add in
Conway's game of life, with symmetry analysis and Sir Roger Penrose for fun. Very interesting.

50:55 Reminds of why exactly we created the new idea and application of pixels that are exactly that shape. The dimensional plane of your graph here incorporates another scope for what was supposed to be True Depth TV, an application used for future plasma based, large scale theater screens and virtualization environments..

Oh God, this is like oxygen to a suffocating man! THANK you for providing a serious venue for speculative science from competent workers.

i watched this on accident but now i am a fan of this guy

I dreamt that I had a teacher in primary school and he just kept going on and on about this. I gave him obligatory nods like "oh yeah, I know what you're talking about - keep going..".

Incredibly profound.
Needs more views.

Amazing! Tank you!

Thank you for everything Stephen. Never leaving a dream.

In man's pursuit of understanding the universe, they, unwittingly, created a new one

As far as anyone went ,no one could ever answer these questions yet we know there is an answer.

The low structure entropy in the beginning of the universe is compensated by the high information value of the starting bit of code that contains the 'plan' what comes. Here information entropy and thermodynamic entropy are really good in sync imo

Yup. Fell sleep and woke up to see this had been playing

I keep waking up and the algorithm drives me to these videos

(59:16) So, Wolfram are about to prove Einstein was right about quantum physics after all. Second note is that Wolfram might have secured work for the next generation of theoretical physicists with this. Many interesting ideas he put on the table.

I wake up to this every morning.

I like to go to sleep on auto play some nights. Woke up early in the middle of this, wth?
I’m not a math guy but it’s still fascinating. I guess the algorithm sees something in me :)

THANK YOU FOR TRYING TO SHOW USALL HOW THE"WHOLE FRAME" WORKS !

I have been listening to this for days. Something came to me 2:41:29.
The hypergraph as a thing. Could dark energy be a byproduct of Time?
Think of the nodes like a bit coin. When it gets updated there is a theoretical node between the two nodes. Which pops into existence after.

Black holes can't be pieces that gets separeted from the main piece because that means they are no longer affecting the universe. If that would happen in real, this would just be desapearing matter and space, which is not the case.
I think that the phenomena that would describe a black hole, in my current understanding of your theory, is a big set of nodes that begins to indefenitely attract every other nodes around them and begin to form an area with dimension converging to infinity so everything gets lost inside that big piece of space and matter and there are so many dimensions and so many dimensions begin to be immitated that nothing finds a way to get outside of that area. Too many directions will lead to the middle of that giant piece so everything moving randomly gets to the middle, but not kinda the middle at the same time.

EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! This talk is Amazing! I feet asleep at my computer then this video was playing around 5:am. So I started the video again from the beginning. The Topic is amazing!

Fascinating introduction! Was just the kick I needed.

2:46:40 Wow. Physics unfolding before our very eyes. Thats a rare thing.

I've never felt so grateful to live in this universe and have a physical existence. Next time I go to the beach I'm going to let sand slip through my fingers and have the universe calculate an unimaginable amount of physics, without even calculating it at all.
The universe is amazing. Even just being able to think about stuff like this is emotional. We could of all just been living in nothing and have none of these luxuries. Consciousness is a blessing, always remember that.

One does not simply choose wolfram, one is gifted wolfram from which thee slumber.

enlightening...ready to unlearn the past knowledge and instill new knowledge. tqvm

28:00 This thing looks VERY VERY similar to a human brain and its neural networks!!! Mr. Wolfram says its dimension is aprox. 2.7. It also happens that the dimension (fractal/Hausdorff dimension) of the surface of human brain is 2.79
OOOOOOOHH what a coincidence!!! Or is it...?

36:35: "OK, lets talk about time...." :-) great stuff, thank you

Right click -> loop,
Best music for your ears

This is genius, and honestly the most logical explanation of the universe I have ever heard, combining the multiverse, the quantum, and the classical in a way that corresponds to the observer and attempts to explain the inherent branching of the universe, of which we are very minor but explicit segments within the orders of magnitude, but describable as an event beginning with simple principles, suggesting once again that the universe is being simulated by a very sophisticated computer running very specific generative code. If time is quantifiable at a specific smallest unit, then time might only appear to progress at a “slow" rate because we observe it, but in relative terms, a very sophisticated computer could compute the universe in “seconds" and make its conclusions in the blink of a higher dimensional being’s “eyes”. I wonder how the rules illustrated would appear if simulated holographically.

This is amazing. It's so beautiful and simple and complicated all at the same time. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Yes, yes, Stephen. But where’s my hoverboard?

3:26:04 "We see it as a big intellectual adventure..can we climb the big mount everest of science", as long as you have a lot of fun doing it...its unimportant if you do end up at the top or not.

As a PhD in Physics Im fascinated by his work. It seems to solve few of the burning questions we were having. Its seems to be able to work in big (high order corrections to Einsteins' field equations) and small scales (path integral formulation).

Here we meet again, All roads lead to Wolfram

Absolutely fantastic! I knew Stephen Wolfram was a genius, but I couldn't have imagined to what extend. The ideas presented here are astonishing and Stephen's way of presenting them is outstanding in terms of clarity and coherence. As of Jonathan and Max, although I haven't heard about them until now, obviously they have to be in the same ball park of geniality in order to be part of the team. Right now I'm so impressed an also inspired by this project.

outstanding mind, thank you

I’m not the only one who fell asleep to a whole different video and woke up to this right???

Super congrats super success. Thanks a million Dr. Wolfram and all contributors. Can we get a worldwide support for extra compute power from average people to seek simple rule of computational language of universe and harness its intelligence and computing capacity on simulations of universes?

Im 5 seconds in and I feel smart guys. We did it.

What the fuck, I was watching an enquiry about mail fraud and nodded off. Awoke nearly three hours deep into this. My algorithm is going to be interesting this week.

8:25 yes, I picked up thinking about and tinkering with things like this again due to the pandemic. Currently trying to answer the question "How can we tell if there is something or nothing in an image?".

Surprising how far the project has come in 3 years!!!!!!!!!!!

"It's turtles all the way down!"
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Good stuff! Thank you!

I woke up to this. Sounds like an Amway commercial.

Wow, this is sick. This is modeling at another level. Hyper graph travelers. I wonder what quarks, carbon and hydrogen look like? Why on earth the plank length is such a weird boundary.

55:00 "energy is the flux of causal edges through space like hypersurfaces". Since we start with only 1 causal edge and as time passes me have more and more causal edges. Does this mean that the energy of the system continuously increase over time?

Easily the most fascinating video I have ever seen on KRplus. Steven Wolfram, next step: Explain Consciousness! Please go after it!

my second night wakin up here

it seems to suggest the existence of a new kind of quantum field variable which is neither local or non-local in nature, it would be more like a variable that defines its own locality through process

The very first axiom is where you're going to get the most resistance. Whether space is discrete or continuous is a debate that will go on for ages.

I fell asleep with autoplay on.. how the fuck did i end up here😂😂

An Amateur approach at Undergraduate level is based primarily on basic experience, (a bit of Newtonian Agricultural experience), and Introductory Courses, so immediately, this endeavor is begun at higher, (Mezzanine?), levels of qualifications.
Undergraduate preparations and Philosophical Orientation are usually asserted (by qualified Professors) in the manner in which it is intended to be completed, in the first few weeks of University, because the really effective Research and re-view of Science and Methodology begins at PhD levels. (Not Amateur except as it applies to relevant Commentary, ..of the kind Newton devised and developed and practiced, for himself, thinking for himself.., no KRplus, Google, or alternative psychological/medical sources etc)
Newton had every reason to be ruled by fear of chaos, so the search for permanent reliability in a metastable environment and culture seems like enough motivation to explain his actions, if not the totality of his achievements.
So if by communication/commentary, ..on the equivalence of temporal Superposition-point Singularity positioning, in relation to The Calculus, ..natural verisimilitude due to the sustained metastable sum-of-all-histories,
..wave-package probability in potential possibilities of e-Pi-i interference positioning resonance imaging function,
..cause-effect of holographic existence..,
is at least a comprehensible orientation to conscious awareness of observable phenomena here-now-forever,
..and then the methodology of Math-Phys-Chem and Geometry in rational and reasonable statement of approach / position..,
.. is placed in the related student-level, QM-TIMESPACE Principle In-form-ation Math-phys Chem format of Geometrically superimposed resonances, context.
In other words, over to you..

Posting a comment to the video of the most important physics breakthrough of our life time. 🥂

ill be honest i fell asleep watching minecraft videos and ended up here....

Real presentation starts at 15:18. Thank me later.

"Everything is just space" => Cixin Liu (Author of the SciFi-Masterpiece "The Three Body Problem") had his idea a time ago when in his Story it was discovered, that everyting ist just curved space. back those day I thought: "nice idea but most likely not true." :D

WITNESSED. Big up Stephen.