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What is a particle in Wolfram’s universe?
FromThe Last Theory
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Jul 27, 2023
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Podcast episode
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It’s pretty easy to see how three-dimensional space might arise from Wolfram Physics.The hypergraph kinda looks like space, and, for some rules, it kinda looks like it’s three-dimensional.But our universe isn’t just empty three-dimensional space.It’s mostly empty space, but there are also particles moving through that space: photons, neutrinos, electrons, quarks.Sometimes, these particles interact, annihilating each other and producing new particles.If Wolfram Physics is to be a successful model of our universe, it must, of course, model these elementary particles and their interactions.So where are the particles in the hypergraph?What is a particle in Wolfram’s universe?—Animations:
Thanks to Alan Dewar for permission to use his excellent implementation of Conway’s Game of Life for many of the animations in the video
Thanks also to Chris Rowett for permission to use his Life Viewer, a beautiful implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which I used for the greyship animation in the video and image in the thumbnail
Another implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which reproduces the Life Lexicon from ConwayLife.com, is at playgameoflife.com
Sources:Talking of ConwayLife.com, that’s another incredible resource for information on Conway’s Game of LifeTools:I created an RLE to text converter to convert Run Length Encoded patterns to plain text formatImages:
John H Conway 2005 by Thane Plambeck licensed under CC BY 2.0
Sounds:
Crickets choir by Serg Childed licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
—The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of the Open Web MindI release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.The full article is here.Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.
Thanks to Alan Dewar for permission to use his excellent implementation of Conway’s Game of Life for many of the animations in the video
Thanks also to Chris Rowett for permission to use his Life Viewer, a beautiful implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which I used for the greyship animation in the video and image in the thumbnail
Another implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, which reproduces the Life Lexicon from ConwayLife.com, is at playgameoflife.com
Sources:Talking of ConwayLife.com, that’s another incredible resource for information on Conway’s Game of LifeTools:I created an RLE to text converter to convert Run Length Encoded patterns to plain text formatImages:
John H Conway 2005 by Thane Plambeck licensed under CC BY 2.0
Sounds:
Crickets choir by Serg Childed licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
—The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of the Open Web MindI release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.The full article is here.Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.
Released:
Jul 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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