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Stephen Wolfram - Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist.
Books mentioned
A New Kind of ScienceStephen Wolfram
A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of PhysicsStephen Wolfram
Timestamps
- 7:14 - Key moments in history of physics
- 12:43 - Philosophy of science
- 14:37 - Science and computational reducibility
- 22:08 - Predicting the pandemic
- 38:58 - Sunburn moment with Wolfram Alpha
- 39:46 - Computational irreducibility
- 46:45 - Theory of everything
- 52:41 - General relativity
- 1:01:16 - Quantum mechanics
- 1:06:46 - Unifying the laws of physics
- 1:12:01 - Wolfram Physics Project
- 1:29:53 - Emergence of time
- 1:34:11 - Causal invariance
- 1:53:03 - Deriving physics from simple rules on hypergraphs
- 2:07:24 - Einstein equations
- 2:13:04 - Simulating the physics of the universe
- 2:17:28 - Hardware specs of the simulation
- 2:24:37 - Quantum mechanics in Wolfram physics model
- 2:42:46 - Double-slit experiment
- 2:45:13 - Quantum computers
- 2:53:21 - Getting started with Wolfram physics project
- 3:14:46 - The rules that created our universe
- 3:24:22 - Alien intelligences
- 3:32:29 - Meta-mathematics
- 3:37:58 - Why is math hard?
- 3:52:55 - Sabine Hossenfelder and how beauty leads physics astray
- 4:01:07 - Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity
- 4:06:17 - Travel faster than speed of light
- 4:16:59 - Why does the universe exist at all