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