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How to apply Stephen Wolfram's theory of everything?

Anonymous Tue 12 Jan 10:20:54 2021 No.12572028 View Reply Original Report

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Surely there are applications but I'm too much of a brainlet to figure them out. Any help?

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Anonymous Tue 12 Jan 2021 10:28:00 No.12572038 Report

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It doesn't really apply.
The genius of Wolfram's theory (what he calls computational irreducibility) is that in most cases there is no good "theory" or summary of a physical system, the only way to predict is to simulate (compute) completely. It's a beautiful idea but also makes his theories entirely useless.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Jan 2021 11:09:00 No.12572127 Report

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I sent some emails and got to speak with him via zoom, here are the main takeaways:

>Hes narsicistic to the point of obnoxiousness
>The core of his idea is to take space as discrete chunks and describe relationships between them with graphs in hopes that the graphs overlaps can be interpreted as matter while the orientation of the graphs is time.

>It took me close to a month to read all of his material, I'm already a grad student. It's a complete waste of time.

>Even if he's able to describe the universe via graphs, theres no way to know if the universe he proposes as ours is actually ours because his model relies on it being consistent with experimental data, one experiment can throw his graph to the shitter, you basically have a model that can acurrately check if something is a TOE but can't actually produce a TOE by itself.

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