Wolfram Physics Project Launch
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Published 2020-04-14
Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram
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All Comments (21)
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The sheer amount of people who've fallen asleep watching another video only to wake up and find this video playing is immense
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Anyone else woke up to this on autoplay at 2AM?
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I fell asleep to a vid on the first metal lathe and woke up, several lengthy math and physics videos later. I can't wait to see what ads Google will be pitching me for the next couple of days.
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I COULD FALL ASLEEP TO ANYTHING ON YOUTUBE AND I ALWAYS SOMEHOW END UP WAKING UP TO A WOLFRAM VIDEO????
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I fell asleep while watching YouTube and when I woke up this is what was playing.
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So we are all waking up to this video. Woke up to the part about the universe being a simulation and stayed in bed until i finished it
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I was dreaming I was exploring a planet while some dude was talking to me about quantum computing and hyper drives and I woke up to this video.
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my second night wakin up here
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hearing this in my sleep gave me trippy fuckin dreams... about a group of people going through a series of increasingly difficult challenges from escaping a tsunami to surviving in space. there was terror, suspense, puzzle solving, logic, death, tears. i'm already forgetting but it was my best dream in a while. no one cares but thought i'd share the experience.
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bro why the hell i wake up everytime with this video
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I fell asleep to a Vsauce video and woke up to this vid
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Unlike other people in the comment section. I didn’t fell asleep. Just turned off phone and after few minutes YouTube started playing this by itself!
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AMAZING. I'm here because of Javier Santaolalla one of the best Physicist of all time! I'm even Flipating! ;)
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Fell asleep watching yt and this is what I wake up to
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“Different points in Branchial Space, their natural distance Metric is expressible as something as Entanglement Entropy.” Fascinating!
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This is what it would have been like if someone like Newton or Einstein would have held podcasts. I feel truly privileged to be able to take part in this. Thank you Stephen!
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I wake up to this every morning.
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50:55 Reminds of why exactly we created the new idea and application of pixels that are exactly that shape. The dimensional plane of your graph here incorporates another scope for what was supposed to be True Depth TV, an application used for future plasma based, large scale theater screens and virtualization environments..
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Must say, I'm very impressed by humble Stephen Wolfram! What ever happens, if this project is leading to the unified theory or not, he is much more an inspiration than the typical physicist who is more concerned to appear as scientist, mostly by producing minor stuff which then gets blown big, who is mainly concerned of having a nice career, a nice pension, unearned reputation and not to bring physics to a new level. It's not only a waste of money also of creativity and a missed contributions to society which finances them. Think Wolfram is driven by a childlike interest, not mainly speculating to get a Nobel Prize some day. Being interested in physics since a long time, I started to detect an immense void inside the nothingness-loudspeakers in physics, who appeared ever more as emperors with no cloth, as uninspired pea counters, not having achieved much I'd say in the last 50 years, Krauss, Tyson, Carroll etc. Whereas ordinary people get impressed by some equations and complexity-talk, then putting these loudspeakers on high pedestals they don't deserve, I felt a rising skepticism towards such pretenders. We see lots of blinders in public with their nothing's. Shallow thinkers wanting to appear as new Einsteins. I think Wolfram is different here, smart, humble, interest driven, and if someone I know has the substance to expand Einsteins physics, its probably him and not the army of pea counters of orthodoxies.
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3:38:10 @Wolfram wow, that is a once in a generation intellectual achievement. One comment. You don't have to bake the forward direction of the update rule into your assumptions. Causal edges can indicate that two states are causally consistent, but transitions can be bidirectional. That corresponds to the microscopic time symmetry in physics. The arrow of time arises statistically because the graph is tapered at one end and wide at the other. We are big subgraphs and we drift to what we call later time because there are more causal edges leading there. That also answers why the initial condition was simple: It doesn't need to be, the causal adjacency graph tapers at one end, that we call the past, and fans out the other end that we call the future, regardless where you start. The 2nd law of thermodynamics is derived from conservation of information. The simplest graph causally consistent in the past is the big bang and the irreducible information content of the universe. The 2nd law says that states become larger and larger by iterating the causal rule, but no new information is added. There's a bit more proof and formalism to add, so I'll join and express this fully.