In 2019, Jonathan Gorard and Max Piskunov goaded Stephen Wolfram into pursuing his ideas for a new kind of science.This led to the announcement of The Wolfram Physics Project in 2020.Last week, I talked to Jonathan Gorard about the revolutionary ideas that have come out of the project.In this first excerpt from our conversation, Jonathan talks about his instrumental role in the founding of The Wolfram Physics Project.We cover why the time was right in 2020... and why it had been wrong in 2002 when Stephen Wolfram published his book A New Kind of Science.We talk about how Wolfram Physics might take over from string theory, why Jonathan likes string theory... and why he doesn’t.It was a true pleasure to talk to Jonathan about what might prove a pivotal moment in the history of science.—Jonathan Gorard
Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project
Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University
People and Projects
The Centre for Applied Compositionality
The Wolfram Physics Project
Stephen Wolfram’s announcement of the project
Max Piskunov
SetReplace on GitHub
Concepts mentioned by Jonathan
Irreducibility
Undecidability
Universality
Current algebra
Regge theory
Gauge theory
Standard Model
String theory
Poincaré group
Mirror symmetry
Calabi–Yau manifold
K3 surface
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Calabi–Yau manifold CalabiYau5 by Andrew J. Hanson, Indiana University, who allows use with attribution
Feynman diagram Feynmann Diagram Gluon Radiation by Joel Holdsworth, public domain
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