In Less Than a Year, So Much New: Launching Version 12.1 of Wolfram Language...
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View ArticleHow We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project
“Someday…” I’ve been saying it for decades: “Someday I’m going to mount a serious effort to find the fundamental theory of physics.” Well, I’m thrilled that today “someday” has come, and we’re...
View ArticleFinally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and...
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View ArticleThe Wolfram Physics Project: The First Two Weeks
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View ArticleEvent Horizons, Singularities and Other Exotic Spacetime Phenomena
Wolfram Physics Bulletin Informal updates and commentary on progress in the Wolfram Physics Project Related livestreams Related notebooks Video work logs Related tweets Related livestreams April 29,...
View ArticleExploring Rulial Space: The Case of Turing Machines
Wolfram Physics Bulletin Informal updates and commentary on progress in the Wolfram Physics Project Related livestreams Related notebooks Video work logs Related tweets Related livestreams May 26,...
View ArticleA Burst of Physics Progress at the 2020 Wolfram Summer School
And We’re Off and Running… We recently wrapped up the four weeks of our first-ever “Physics track” Wolfram Summer School—and the results were spectacular! More than 30 projects potentially destined to...
View ArticleThe Empirical Metamathematics of Euclid and Beyond
Towards a Science of Metamathematics One of the many surprising things about our Wolfram Physics Project is that it seems to have implications even beyond physics. In our effort to develop a...
View ArticleFaster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
When the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program asked me to keynote their annual conference I thought it would be a good excuse to spend some time on a question I’ve always wanted to explore… Can...
View ArticleOur Mission and the Opportunity of Artifacts from the Future
In preparing my keynote at our 31st annual technology conference, I tried to collect some of my thoughts about our long-term mission and how I view the opportunities it is creating… What I’ve Spent My...
View ArticleCombinators: A Centennial View
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View ArticleCombinators and the Story of Computation
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View ArticleWhere Did Combinators Come From? Hunting the Story of Moses Schönfinkel
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View ArticleLaunching Version 12.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: 228 New...
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View ArticleTini Veltman (1931–2021): From Assembly Language to a Nobel Prize
It All Started with Feynman Diagrams Any serious calculation in particle physics takes a lot of algebra. Maybe it doesn’t need to. But with the methods based on Feynman diagrams that we know so far,...
View ArticleMultiway Turing Machines
Wolfram Physics Bulletin Informal updates and commentary on progress in the Wolfram Physics Project Related livestreams Related notebooks Video work logs Related tweets Related livestreams December...
View ArticleAfter 100 Years, Can We Finally Crack Post’s Problem of Tag? A Story of...
h2.bookpost{display:block;} img.bookpost{padding-left:0px} “[Despite] Considerable Effort… [It Proved] Intractable” In the early years of the twentieth century it looked as if—if only the right...
View ArticleWhat Is Consciousness? Some New Perspectives from Our Physics Project
“What about Consciousness?” For years I’ve batted it away. I’ll be talking about my discoveries in the computational universe, and computational irreducibility, and my Principle of Computational...
View ArticleA Little Closer to Finding What Became of Moses Schönfinkel, Inventor of...
For most big ideas in recorded intellectual history one can answer the question: “What became of the person who originated it?” But late last year I tried to answer that for Moses Schönfinkel, who...
View ArticleThe Wolfram Physics Project: A Gallery of the First Year
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