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Episode Three: Stephen Wolfram

Episode Three: Stephen Wolfram

FromThe Galileo Interviews with Caspar Gleave


Episode Three: Stephen Wolfram

FromThe Galileo Interviews with Caspar Gleave

ratings:
Length:
96 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A conversation with Stephen Wolfram. 
Books:  A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics: https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/a-project-to-find-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics.html
A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ 
The Physics Project: https://www.wolframphysics.org 
00:00:00 Introduction  
00:01:11 Looking at Stephen Wolfram’s Educational journey 
00:05:39 Things learnt in school are actually useful! 
00:06:34 Particle Physics and Stephen’s early years 
00:11:39 Stephen Wolfram’s first paper 
00:16:19 Using computers for algebraic calculations 
00:22:00 Launching his own company 
00:23:00 Starting to study cellular automata 
00:26:30 The importance of using technology to help advance physics 
00:28:14 The advice Stephen would give to his teenage self 
00:30:00 The importance of choosing the right problems 
00:35:44 Stephen’s views on ‘modern’ physics 
00:38:21 Ruliology and A New Kind of Science 
00:40:56 Working on a generalisation of calculus? 
00:45:16 Applying learnings from the Physics Project to other fields such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics 
00:50:00 Physics as a remarkable export field 
00:54:24 History of tools to describe the universe 
00:55:17 Computation as a very general paradigm & Wolfram Language 
01:00:12 Wolfram Summer Camp 01:02:40 The possibility of a special relativity of economics 
01:06:21 Live streaming and open source nature of the Physics Project  
01:09:18 The concept of the Ruliad  
01:15:28 Taking measurements and moving through Ruliad Space? 
01:22:00 Quantum mechanics and relatively - a beautiful symmetry  
01:34:00 Thank you and goodbye
Released:
Mar 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (11)

The Galileo Interviews are committed to inspiring our next generation of physicists, introducing them to some of the greatest minds in the current generation of physicists and the research that they are working on. Launched in Oct 2021 by Caspar, currently taking a gap year before joining Imperial College in London. The full interviews are also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGalileoInterviews Links: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thegalileointerviews https://twitter.com/TheGalileoInt https://www.instagram.com/thegalileointerviews/