Episode Three: Stephen Wolfram

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