Interesting. This is the 3rd time experiencing this and the first two times i woke to the same video: '2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?' ua-cam.com/video/wgSZA3NPpBs/v-deo.html
IDK man... and my thing is about watches and f1 I don't watch a single video about this subject... no conspiracy or anything but idk like the 3rd time alreadyc🤣🤣🤣🤣
@silverlight3 I still wake up too it too this day, I feel like I wake up, have my coffee, smoke a dab and watch it for like 20 mins now, it's getting a bit odd aha
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.
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.
I found your comment interesting. We may find importance in times if many of us experienced similar group dreams yet will never know because there is no where universal to share them. light bulb turns on.
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!
@@David_Lloyd-Jones Isn't the magic of the internet that all ideas can be expressed and explored in whatever form one chose to? I think it's incredible to live in a world where free enterprise, and free exploration of ideas are allowed. I do thank you for publicly reminding / pointing towards Fredkin as he is one of the many unsung heroes of computer science. So to anyone who happens comes across this little rap: It's well worth reading anything Fredkin has ever written and listening to any lecture / interview possible to find. If you haven't had the opportunity to read Wolframs "A New Kind of Science" yet it's also an amazing work. At lest worth the read if you can find it at a library. Then one can decide for oneself wether it's worth the money (spoiler, I think it is def worth the 36 bucks i paid for it an adlibris). No other work I've come across captures the interesting nature of automatas quite like this book. Not to make too big of a joke about it, but I find it kind of silly to suggest that a fraudster would put that amount of time and effort behind anything of this magnitude. I mean - if, for example, money was the end game here - don't you think there'd be waaaaay easier ways to get rich than trying to find a solid ToE?
I'm not a physicist by any means but my curiosity has led me here after reading the memo. I'm not sure if this is already covered in the broader materials but the two-slit experiment may be a great example of this for the average enthusiast : - develop a sample rule to build space - illustrate how light occupies that space in discrete time steps spreading out leading to the wave pattern - show how the impact of "quantum measurement" by an observer can "freeze time" in a quantum frame leading to the slit pattern
How about first trying something "simple" like recreate spacetime with a single particle before going to such daring complex things as the two slits experiment?
This work is just pure, and revolutionary, so inspirational, dude 1:40:44 “ that means that the particles are not just there in space, and then curl, its the space that form the particles” 🤯
there is a quote from Bohm OR Dirac (my best guess) somewhere saying the same in terms of particles being only the expressions of the folding of the regions of space with diferent potential. its all space. the ALLSPACE of what used to be called the synthetic geometry
50:30 this explanation of special relativity is truly amazing! Even as a professional physicist, I have not heard about this before. And it makes a lot of sense to me.
Thank you for writing your book ("A New Kind Of Science") Stephen, jumping right into reading it! (first time to learn about it but the last time to retroactively forget it haha peace out).
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..
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.
Peter Lustig even if these ideas don't tell us the specific rule of our universe, if they are mathematically sound and we complete their development it is possible to exactly simulate the universe provided the model is complete. Whether or not that completion is possible is unknown but this project is still very new and right now the goal is to develop tools that can be used over the next decade to develop the field.
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.
I've never felt so grateful to live in this universe and have a physical existence. Next time I go to the beach I'm going to let sand slip through my fingers and have the universe calculate an unimaginable amount of physics, without even calculating it at all. The universe is amazing. Even just being able to think about stuff like this is emotional. We could of all just been living in nothing and have none of these luxuries. Consciousness is a blessing, always remember that.
Talking about intellectually demanding topics for almost 4 hours straight without a drop in energy levels... impressive. Even more considering Stephen's age.
@@rusmiller816 - Quite older than me and I'm 52. Considering he was taught by Feynman... OK, I'll check Wikipedia but my guess is around 65. Let's see... OK, I was slightly wrong: he's 60 only, born on August 29th 1959.
@Peter Lustig - I think the algorithm is the same as the graph, this is something he should explain better to non-initiates though. But my understanding is that the idea is that each "dot" carries the algorithm, such as {A > BBB, BB > A} in the character string example they sometimes use. It'd be nice if we could see better how that intrinsical algorithm relates to physical fundamentals anyhow, that's a part I still haven't grasped well, only very generically and intuitively, what is clearly not enough.
@Peter Lustig Feynman's diagrams were similarly "mostly" graphical in nature but they opened the doors to truly understanding atomic particle interactions.
Love the project and am actively contributing. Please keep up with the Livestreams Stephen, we need these to develop our intuitive sense of how to build Universal models and experiment. Eager to see this develop further, I am optimistic this has big promise for physics and humankind hopefully as well :)
i like the way this sort of computational approach lends itself to a better understanding of entropy, you can see how it might be balanced with naturally occurring tendencies toward order and synchronisation
55:00 "energy is the flux of causal edges through space like hypersurfaces". Since we start with only 1 causal edge and as time passes me have more and more causal edges. Does this mean that the energy of the system continuously increase over time?
This question leads to interesting considerations, thank you. My understanding is only rudimentary, but generally as the edges increase, this so-called "flux" may change both in quality and, as mentioned, in quantity, with respect to causal edge increase, the question being: though increasing in count number, are the properties of these causal edges such that this flux either: (A) stays the same, "on the whole"* (within the system); or, (B) does it, in fact, change? (Leading, of course, to interesting interactions with the known laws of Thermodynamics.) *This, of course, leads to a nice question of how this "system" should be defined/ Again, I am in the process of delving into the computational and even mathematical structure of these particularities and thank you for the framing of your question.
From the website, chapter 8.8: "We should note that with our identification for energy and momentum, the conservation of energy becomes essentially the statement that the overall density of events in the causal network does not change as we progress through successive spacelike surfaces. And, as we will discuss later, if in effect the whole hypergraph is in some kind of dynamic equilibrium, then we can reasonably expect that this will be the case. Expansion (or, more specifically, non-uniform expansion) will lead to effective violations of energy conservation, much as it does for an expanding universe in the traditional formalism of general relativity [117][75]." So apparently the first causal edge will contain all the energy that will ever exist and it will subsequently be divided with each step along the causal graph.
Would absolutely recommend this to anyone who wants to fall asleep while listening to something that doesn’t make him feel alone, and doesn’t make him overthink in silence
What's crazy you say this, I legit fell asleep watching a different video and this was added into my autoplay loop and while asleep I was dreaming of what he was saying and making sense of it. It was actually so insane.
As a PhD in Physics Im fascinated by his work. It seems to solve few of the burning questions we were having. Its seems to be able to work in big (high order corrections to Einsteins' field equations) and small scales (path integral formulation).
You had me until 1:16:00 . How does observing a quantum particle relate to freezing time? From the graph it seems that the effect of the observation propagates at the speed of light, which is true in a strict sense, but I don't see how it addresses the fact that observing entangled particles gives you information about the partner in a distant location. The only way I can make sense of this is if in fact the quantum particle is frozen in its starting state, then once it is forced into another state by observation, in that moment all the intermediate steps occur all at once. This would partially explain interference with causal invariance, but I don't see how it explains the seeming random distribution over all possible final states.
You disconnect alternative computational paths. It's a bit like branching in MW but the other worlds do not happen, or at least not in any timeline you can communicate with. Until measurement all branches, all timelines were possible, after it they are not anymore.
(59:16) So, Wolfram are about to prove Einstein was right about quantum physics after all. Second note is that Wolfram might have secured work for the next generation of theoretical physicists with this. Many interesting ideas he put on the table.
The only thing I am uncomfortable with is Theoretical Physics as a word, it is a n oxymoron. This discipline is very interesting from an applicative point of vie, but I would call it immaterial science, because physics is absolutely not involved at any level, it's quite the contrary, it's also a wild claim to attach those mathematical concept to an universe we cannot explore. He keeps losing me when he, or anyone else, extrapolates this intellectual exercise to the universe. As much as all this requires intelligence to develop, jumping to correlations with stuff we can't empirically prove would have been considered a wild claim in pre-Ensteininan science.
How was the first connection between two points? It is not needed a high high probability to have two points with the needed characteristics to create a third point and so on? So the question is: if you need two or more points to create complexs systems, how do you explain that from a unique point, that is unique unique, there comes a second point?
I saw you on lex’s show, what you said about special relativity explained by different update speeds for nodes has been keeping me up at night. I’m back for more!
It's amazing how the brain continues to learn while i'm falling asleep to that, and brain even creating visualisation of dreams to make understanding all those terms easier for me.
The longlongintro intro about the “beauty“ of his own model convinced me that maybe we have a real artist here. Maybe now, with beauty achieved, let's start with physics.
I have been listening to this for days. Something came to me 2:41:29. The hypergraph as a thing. Could dark energy be a byproduct of Time? Think of the nodes like a bit coin. When it gets updated there is a theoretical node between the two nodes. Which pops into existence after.
dark energy is time .. the expansion of space in one direction .. time flows in one direction .. one direction was a shitty 2000s boy band . its all linked man ..
Absolutely fantastic! I knew Stephen Wolfram was a genius, but I couldn't have imagined to what extend. The ideas presented here are astonishing and Stephen's way of presenting them is outstanding in terms of clarity and coherence. As of Jonathan and Max, although I haven't heard about them until now, obviously they have to be in the same ball park of geniality in order to be part of the team. Right now I'm so impressed an also inspired by this project.
What a beautiful topic to wake up to. And it feels like the universe wanted you to hear it, as if it’s nudging us toward some deeper understanding of existence. Falling asleep to randomness and waking up to discussions about the nature of reality? Maybe it’s not just the algorithm but something cosmic trying to get our attention.
Yea i really got inspired like that i saw many people online playing with cellular automaton and various versions of those and you could really see complexity in it and recognize parts of the world in them and that is what really attracted me to them.
EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! This talk is Amazing! I feet asleep at my computer then this video was playing around 5:am. So I started the video again from the beginning. The Topic is amazing!
I am getting a feeling of Quasi-Crystals, Lie Groups, Garrett Lisi, mixed with Syntax analysis, State diagrams, and theory of abstract languages with Finite State Automata. Also add in Conway's game of life, with symmetry analysis and Sir Roger Penrose for fun. Very interesting.
Super congrats super success. Thanks a million Dr. Wolfram and all contributors. Can we get a worldwide support for extra compute power from average people to seek simple rule of computational language of universe and harness its intelligence and computing capacity on simulations of universes?
Yes just woke up too . Damn usually I can grasp just about any complex or complicated theory or idea watching or reading research, but this is way above my pay grade. But still listening. Sometimes just listening can plant seeds which will then germinate and blossom after more exposure. Thanks for the upload and wish you success.
54:51 Isn't this also the way something in the eyeball is designed or wired up? Which is supposed to relate to our observers' explanation of principles over time perception, as one?
"Everything is just space" => Cixin Liu (Author of the SciFi-Masterpiece "The Three Body Problem") had his idea a time ago when in his Story it was discovered, that everyting ist just curved space. back those day I thought: "nice idea but most likely not true." :D
3:26:04 "We see it as a big intellectual adventure..can we climb the big mount everest of science", as long as you have a lot of fun doing it...its unimportant if you do end up at the top or not.
I like to go to sleep on auto play some nights. Woke up early in the middle of this, wth? I’m not a math guy but it’s still fascinating. I guess the algorithm sees something in me :)
I think you might genuinely have completed physics Stephen! Final boss completed, credits rolled, entering name into the high scores as we speak... It's not often I'll watch anything on UA-cam past an hour long, but this blew my mind almost all the way through. Honestly brilliant work! I hope this theory continues to hold true use you develop it further and hopefully my kids will be learning about this in their science lessons at school.
The low structure entropy in the beginning of the universe is compensated by the high information value of the starting bit of code that contains the 'plan' what comes. Here information entropy and thermodynamic entropy are really good in sync imo
28:00 This thing looks VERY VERY similar to a human brain and its neural networks!!! Mr. Wolfram says its dimension is aprox. 2.7. It also happens that the dimension (fractal/Hausdorff dimension) of the surface of human brain is 2.79 OOOOOOOHH what a coincidence!!! Or is it...?
8:25 yes, I picked up thinking about and tinkering with things like this again due to the pandemic. Currently trying to answer the question "How can we tell if there is something or nothing in an image?".
I've been thinking about how to make a complexity classifying deep learning neural network, but I have no idea if it's possible given the nature of complexity and computational irreducibility.
Stephen Wolfram actually is onto something very special here, which makes sense in so many ways that classical theories generally confuse. As a computational scientist (programmer :) I am finally beginning to get to put 2 and 2 together using Stephen's discoveries, and am noticing how they may apply almost everywhere I look.
This man just explained to enigmas in physics, that I think are fundamental and Paramount. Time dilation in special relativity and momentum. Wolfram is a world treasure ✴️.
![Wolfram Physics Project: Working Session Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2020 [Finding Black Hole Structures]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SbDzqlOLIZA/mqdefault.jpg)
The sheer amount of people who've fallen asleep watching another video only to wake up and find this video playing is immense
Uncanny isn't?
Same boat
This is me.
morning
CTMU happens to be among my recent watches tho
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
Interesting. This is the 3rd time experiencing this and the first two times i woke to the same video:
'2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?'
ua-cam.com/video/wgSZA3NPpBs/v-deo.html
What's up with the sunglasses doe
IDK man... and my thing is about watches and f1 I don't watch a single video about this subject... no conspiracy or anything but idk like the 3rd time alreadyc🤣🤣🤣🤣
I COULD FALL ASLEEP TO ANYTHING ON UA-cam AND I ALWAYS SOMEHOW END UP WAKING UP TO A WOLFRAM VIDEO????
Stephen is waking people up.
My case exactly
@silverlight3 I still wake up too it too this day, I feel like I wake up, have my coffee, smoke a dab and watch it for like 20 mins now, it's getting a bit odd aha
i know ! but why ? oh why ? please someone tell me why !!!!
try steve hislop flying lap tt rc45 .... and watch for 15 mins .. i can guarantee you wont fall asleep
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.
My subconscious must be full of it I just woke up and see I am just ten minutes from the end!
Same
same, last night
Same just now😂
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I fell asleep while watching UA-cam and when I woke up this is what was playing.
Me too!
Same
Same
Bro same
frr
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.
post me some of what your on please
@@colinobrien3806 Wolfram
This also entered my dream lmao my uncle was telling me all of it
bro why the hell i wake up everytime with this video
Because it's 4 hours long.
Anyone else woke up to this on autoplay at 2AM?
Omg this just happened to me. One of the first times UA-cam didn’t navigate to Huberman or Fridman 😂
Legit happened to me today
0300 here but close! Interesting thing to want to.
@@isagrace4260OMG so tired of getting Friedman (or however it's spelled). Such a fake intellectual.
1 am.
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.
Make a film!
@@mikevanelp5916 kinky
I found your comment interesting. We may find importance in times if many of us experienced similar group dreams yet will never know because there is no where universal to share them. light bulb turns on.
I think your dream is cool, and I think dreams are underappreciated a lot of the time.
Some of them can be fantastic and interesting.
DOPE!
Unlike other people in the comment section. I didn’t fell asleep. Just turned off phone and after few minutes UA-cam started playing this by itself!
I fell asleep to a Vsauce video and woke up to this vid
SAME! EVERY NIGHT
Hell no this is what I just did too
nightly routine
I watched deep into night serie "Worst MMO ever?" from Josh Strife Hayes and woke up here.
SAME!!!
Bro i just saw the comments and couldnt believe my eyes. I fell asleep as well and found it in the morning. Crazy
my second night wakin up here
Same😂
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!
They held lectures. Why you went to Princeton or Oxford.
Internet, show you history in real time.
@@David_Lloyd-Jones Isn't the magic of the internet that all ideas can be expressed and explored in whatever form one chose to? I think it's incredible to live in a world where free enterprise, and free exploration of ideas are allowed.
I do thank you for publicly reminding / pointing towards Fredkin as he is one of the many unsung heroes of computer science. So to anyone who happens comes across this little rap: It's well worth reading anything Fredkin has ever written and listening to any lecture / interview possible to find.
If you haven't had the opportunity to read Wolframs "A New Kind of Science" yet it's also an amazing work. At lest worth the read if you can find it at a library. Then one can decide for oneself wether it's worth the money (spoiler, I think it is def worth the 36 bucks i paid for it an adlibris). No other work I've come across captures the interesting nature of automatas quite like this book.
Not to make too big of a joke about it, but I find it kind of silly to suggest that a fraudster would put that amount of time and effort behind anything of this magnitude. I mean - if, for example, money was the end game here - don't you think there'd be waaaaay easier ways to get rich than trying to find a solid ToE?
@@nolan412 Yes, exactly Nolan! Imagine what it would be like if we had and audiovisual record of those lectures!
@@David_Lloyd-Jones Are you sure you're not actually Jonathan playing the ultracrepidarian troll? :-)
AMAZING. I'm here because of Javier Santaolalla one of the best Physicist of all time! I'm even Flipating! ;)
Pablo Carrizales Rocha physicist?
@@user-hk8yp7cw1v y
@@user-hk8yp7cw1v physician lol
Y tendrías que usar el plural “physicists” pq dijiste “one of the best” antes...
@@user-hk8yp7cw1v Correcto amigo.
“Different points in Branchial Space, their natural distance Metric is expressible as something as Entanglement Entropy.”
Fascinating!
I woke up to this video and saw the comments in the morning. It is crazy how many people had the same experience.
I have the best sleeps ever when this is on in the backround!!! no joke....thank you!!
This idea has been cooking in your head all these years -- you have a very powerful subconscious mind sir!
I think conscious too :D
I'm not a physicist by any means but my curiosity has led me here after reading the memo. I'm not sure if this is already covered in the broader materials but the two-slit experiment may be a great example of this for the average enthusiast :
- develop a sample rule to build space
- illustrate how light occupies that space in discrete time steps spreading out leading to the wave pattern
- show how the impact of "quantum measurement" by an observer can "freeze time" in a quantum frame leading to the slit pattern
How about first trying something "simple" like recreate spacetime with a single particle before going to such daring complex things as the two slits experiment?
This work is just pure, and revolutionary, so inspirational, dude 1:40:44 “ that means that the particles are not just there in space, and then curl, its the space that form the particles” 🤯
See Coney Island Green Theory in the book "I Have Become Space".
there is a quote from Bohm OR Dirac (my best guess) somewhere saying the same in terms of particles being only the expressions of the folding of the regions of space with diferent potential. its all space. the ALLSPACE of what used to be called the synthetic geometry
yes, everything is probably something like a very big lissajous curve that have an infinity of “time” to form each new state to its perfection
All of you literally sound like your describing God, and has just given it different names.
@@douglaslipp3258 there is no space
50:30 this explanation of special relativity is truly amazing! Even as a professional physicist, I have not heard about this before. And it makes a lot of sense to me.
what about it is new to you? This seems like basic stuff to me,.
Fell asleep watching yt and this is what I wake up to
I just left a comment saying the same thing. I was on auto play and woke up in the middle of this :)
@@twocyclediesel1280 me too :)
i feel as though most of are on the same vibration - is this a sign to start paying more attention to physics?
@@twocyclediesel1280 Me too! This is trippy man!
Thank you for writing your book ("A New Kind Of Science") Stephen, jumping right into reading it! (first time to learn about it but the last time to retroactively forget it haha peace out).
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..
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.
Yea. There is a difference between caring more for ones ego than caring for science. Same go's for politics by the way...
Wolfram humble? bahahaha
Best idea, the beginning of the theory of everything. you make my day. History in real time. Awesome.
Tt
Peter Lustig even if these ideas don't tell us the specific rule of our universe, if they are mathematically sound and we complete their development it is possible to exactly simulate the universe provided the model is complete. Whether or not that completion is possible is unknown but this project is still very new and right now the goal is to develop tools that can be used over the next decade to develop the field.
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.
I've never felt so grateful to live in this universe and have a physical existence. Next time I go to the beach I'm going to let sand slip through my fingers and have the universe calculate an unimaginable amount of physics, without even calculating it at all.
The universe is amazing. Even just being able to think about stuff like this is emotional. We could of all just been living in nothing and have none of these luxuries. Consciousness is a blessing, always remember that.
Talking about intellectually demanding topics for almost 4 hours straight without a drop in energy levels... impressive. Even more considering Stephen's age.
How old do you think he is?
@@rusmiller816 - Quite older than me and I'm 52. Considering he was taught by Feynman...
OK, I'll check Wikipedia but my guess is around 65. Let's see...
OK, I was slightly wrong: he's 60 only, born on August 29th 1959.
@Peter Lustig - I think the algorithm is the same as the graph, this is something he should explain better to non-initiates though. But my understanding is that the idea is that each "dot" carries the algorithm, such as {A > BBB, BB > A} in the character string example they sometimes use. It'd be nice if we could see better how that intrinsical algorithm relates to physical fundamentals anyhow, that's a part I still haven't grasped well, only very generically and intuitively, what is clearly not enough.
@Peter Lustig - I don't understand enough to judge further but I think you don't either: you seem way too opinionated without sufficient knowledge.
@Peter Lustig Feynman's diagrams were similarly "mostly" graphical in nature but they opened the doors to truly understanding atomic particle interactions.
Love the project and am actively contributing. Please keep up with the Livestreams Stephen, we need these to develop our intuitive sense of how to build Universal models and experiment. Eager to see this develop further, I am optimistic this has big promise for physics and humankind hopefully as well :)
same
How did I wake up here? 💀
29:50 talks about - we haven't found particles in the more complicated rules - hope to do that in next few weeks
Blake Baird ?
I found this video on my phone when I woke up, now I’m gonna watch it all!
I think 70% of people are falling asleep to something else and waking up with this video. The algorithm is doing something. Pretty trippy I think.
Posting a comment to the video of the most important physics breakthrough of our life time. 🥂
This too www.express.co.uk/news/science/1308437/dark-matter-news-scientist-moon-core-theory-newton-einstein
i like the way this sort of computational approach lends itself to a better understanding of entropy, you can see how it might be balanced with naturally occurring tendencies toward order and synchronisation
55:00 "energy is the flux of causal edges through space like hypersurfaces". Since we start with only 1 causal edge and as time passes me have more and more causal edges. Does this mean that the energy of the system continuously increase over time?
This question leads to interesting considerations, thank you. My understanding is only rudimentary, but generally as the edges increase, this so-called "flux" may change both in quality and, as mentioned, in quantity, with respect to causal edge increase, the question being: though increasing in count number, are the properties of these causal edges such that this flux either: (A) stays the same, "on the whole"* (within the system); or, (B) does it, in fact, change? (Leading, of course, to interesting interactions with the known laws of Thermodynamics.)
*This, of course, leads to a nice question of how this "system" should be defined/
Again, I am in the process of delving into the computational and even mathematical structure of these particularities and thank you for the framing of your question.
It seems so, I would like to see how this doesn't violate the first law of thermodynamics
I would expect that for more evolved graphs, several subgraphs reach local stability as a frequent event
From the website, chapter 8.8: "We should note that with our identification for energy and momentum, the conservation of energy becomes essentially the statement that the overall density of events in the causal network does not change as we progress through successive spacelike surfaces. And, as we will discuss later, if in effect the whole hypergraph is in some kind of dynamic equilibrium, then we can reasonably expect that this will be the case. Expansion (or, more specifically, non-uniform expansion) will lead to effective violations of energy conservation, much as it does for an expanding universe in the traditional formalism of general relativity [117][75]."
So apparently the first causal edge will contain all the energy that will ever exist and it will subsequently be divided with each step along the causal graph.
yeah, i see issues with deriving the first law of thermodynamics here
Incredibly profound.
Needs more views.
Would absolutely recommend this to anyone who wants to fall asleep while listening to something that doesn’t make him feel alone, and doesn’t make him overthink in silence
What's crazy you say this, I legit fell asleep watching a different video and this was added into my autoplay loop and while asleep I was dreaming of what he was saying and making sense of it. It was actually so insane.
Profound!
Here we are!! Doing some computation, you can see how simple rules turn to shapes of real effects! So true!!
what abbout this video says... WAKE up too much science! I love it! Thank you Mr. Wofram!
lol I was watching UAP/UFO videos and woke up to this.
Oh God, this is like oxygen to a suffocating man! THANK you for providing a serious venue for speculative science from competent workers.
I remember bits and pieces of this video from my shallow sleep last night!!! Interesting to know this is a universal phenomenon!!
ELEGANCE IN YOUR TREMENDOUS EFFORT ALONE THANK YOU FOR SUCH VERY HARD WORK.
Thank you for everything Stephen. Never leaving a dream.
As a PhD in Physics Im fascinated by his work. It seems to solve few of the burning questions we were having. Its seems to be able to work in big (high order corrections to Einsteins' field equations) and small scales (path integral formulation).
STOP THE CAP
You had me until 1:16:00 . How does observing a quantum particle relate to freezing time? From the graph it seems that the effect of the observation propagates at the speed of light, which is true in a strict sense, but I don't see how it addresses the fact that observing entangled particles gives you information about the partner in a distant location. The only way I can make sense of this is if in fact the quantum particle is frozen in its starting state, then once it is forced into another state by observation, in that moment all the intermediate steps occur all at once. This would partially explain interference with causal invariance, but I don't see how it explains the seeming random distribution over all possible final states.
You disconnect alternative computational paths. It's a bit like branching in MW but the other worlds do not happen, or at least not in any timeline you can communicate with. Until measurement all branches, all timelines were possible, after it they are not anymore.
(59:16) So, Wolfram are about to prove Einstein was right about quantum physics after all. Second note is that Wolfram might have secured work for the next generation of theoretical physicists with this. Many interesting ideas he put on the table.
The only thing I am uncomfortable with is Theoretical Physics as a word, it is a n oxymoron. This discipline is very interesting from an applicative point of vie, but I would call it immaterial science, because physics is absolutely not involved at any level, it's quite the contrary, it's also a wild claim to attach those mathematical concept to an universe we cannot explore.
He keeps losing me when he, or anyone else, extrapolates this intellectual exercise to the universe.
As much as all this requires intelligence to develop, jumping to correlations with stuff we can't empirically prove would have been considered a wild claim in pre-Ensteininan science.
Yeah, I woke up to this video. Did I learn something? No.
Thanks Wolfram for keeping me company.
What is the purpose of the kleptocracy forcing the algorithm to play wolfram physics videos while people sleep?
Haha right
How I wish I'd found this at the beginning. So much catching up to do 😯
Amazing work. Truly inspiring
How was the first connection between two points? It is not needed a high high probability to have two points with the needed characteristics to create a third point and so on? So the question is: if you need two or more points to create complexs systems, how do you explain that from a unique point, that is unique unique, there comes a second point?
Hello and thank you for doing this 💪👏❤️
Easily the most fascinating video I have ever seen on UA-cam. Steven Wolfram, next step: Explain Consciousness! Please go after it!
This is amazing. It's so beautiful and simple and complicated all at the same time. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I saw you on lex’s show, what you said about special relativity explained by different update speeds for nodes has been keeping me up at night. I’m back for more!
coming from lex :)
It's amazing how the brain continues to learn while i'm falling asleep to that, and brain even creating visualisation of dreams to make understanding all those terms easier for me.
That is where hypnosis takes hold and you will believe anything they tell you..
i watched this on accident but now i am a fan of this guy
The longlongintro intro about the “beauty“ of his own model convinced me that maybe we have a real artist here. Maybe now, with beauty achieved, let's start with physics.
I have been listening to this for days. Something came to me 2:41:29.
The hypergraph as a thing. Could dark energy be a byproduct of Time?
Think of the nodes like a bit coin. When it gets updated there is a theoretical node between the two nodes. Which pops into existence after.
dark energy is time .. the expansion of space in one direction .. time flows in one direction .. one direction was a shitty 2000s boy band . its all linked man ..
Fascinating introduction! Was just the kick I needed.
Absolutely fantastic! I knew Stephen Wolfram was a genius, but I couldn't have imagined to what extend. The ideas presented here are astonishing and Stephen's way of presenting them is outstanding in terms of clarity and coherence. As of Jonathan and Max, although I haven't heard about them until now, obviously they have to be in the same ball park of geniality in order to be part of the team. Right now I'm so impressed an also inspired by this project.
What a beautiful topic to wake up to. And it feels like the universe wanted you to hear it, as if it’s nudging us toward some deeper understanding of existence. Falling asleep to randomness and waking up to discussions about the nature of reality? Maybe it’s not just the algorithm but something cosmic trying to get our attention.
Yea i really got inspired like that i saw many people online playing with cellular automaton and various versions of those and you could really see complexity in it and recognize parts of the world in them and that is what really attracted me to them.
EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! This talk is Amazing! I feet asleep at my computer then this video was playing around 5:am. So I started the video again from the beginning. The Topic is amazing!
I am getting a feeling of Quasi-Crystals, Lie Groups, Garrett Lisi, mixed with Syntax analysis, State diagrams, and theory of abstract languages with Finite State Automata. Also add in
Conway's game of life, with symmetry analysis and Sir Roger Penrose for fun. Very interesting.
THANK YOU FOR TRYING TO SHOW USALL HOW THE"WHOLE FRAME" WORKS !
Super congrats super success. Thanks a million Dr. Wolfram and all contributors. Can we get a worldwide support for extra compute power from average people to seek simple rule of computational language of universe and harness its intelligence and computing capacity on simulations of universes?
"Energy is the flux of causal edges through space-like hyper surfaces" I'm going to trip hard on that one.
2:46:40 Wow. Physics unfolding before our very eyes. Thats a rare thing.
Yes just woke up too . Damn usually I can grasp just about any complex or complicated theory or idea watching or reading research, but this is way above my pay grade. But still listening. Sometimes just listening can plant seeds which will then germinate and blossom after more exposure. Thanks for the upload and wish you success.
A WOLF with a lot of RAM memory. Thanks Wolfram
❤️
Nigga
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Woke up and this was on. Apparently most people here have had this happen. Haha, this is trippy as hell!
The date is June 23, 2024.
I woke up to this video playing.
June 27, 2024 3:33am - woke up to this series and feel enlightened after some wild dreams.
December 3, 2024 and same happened to me!
54:51 Isn't this also the way something in the eyeball is designed or wired up? Which is supposed to relate to our observers' explanation of principles over time perception, as one?
I fell asleep at "live stream will start shortly"
Well done! Thx🎉
"Everything is just space" => Cixin Liu (Author of the SciFi-Masterpiece "The Three Body Problem") had his idea a time ago when in his Story it was discovered, that everyting ist just curved space. back those day I thought: "nice idea but most likely not true." :D
3:26:04 "We see it as a big intellectual adventure..can we climb the big mount everest of science", as long as you have a lot of fun doing it...its unimportant if you do end up at the top or not.
So exciting to learn about! Thank you
One does not simply choose wolfram, one is gifted wolfram from which thee slumber.
I wake up to this every morning.
I just woke up here for the first time.
I like to go to sleep on auto play some nights. Woke up early in the middle of this, wth?
I’m not a math guy but it’s still fascinating. I guess the algorithm sees something in me :)
exact same thing. That's amazing.
Same here! So many people in here have the same thing happening to them. The algorithm is doing something.
this guy is amazing. giving the fact that most of the people got here by accident, he is getting plenty of views.
I think you might genuinely have completed physics Stephen! Final boss completed, credits rolled, entering name into the high scores as we speak... It's not often I'll watch anything on UA-cam past an hour long, but this blew my mind almost all the way through. Honestly brilliant work! I hope this theory continues to hold true use you develop it further and hopefully my kids will be learning about this in their science lessons at school.
Tmu
Surprising how far the project has come in 3 years!!!!!!!!!!!
Real presentation starts at 15:18. Thank me later.
As far as anyone went ,no one could ever answer these questions yet we know there is an answer.
Can you determine speed of light from your theory ?
Yes he can, i think he wrote it in his book or one of his other vids
The low structure entropy in the beginning of the universe is compensated by the high information value of the starting bit of code that contains the 'plan' what comes. Here information entropy and thermodynamic entropy are really good in sync imo
28:00 This thing looks VERY VERY similar to a human brain and its neural networks!!! Mr. Wolfram says its dimension is aprox. 2.7. It also happens that the dimension (fractal/Hausdorff dimension) of the surface of human brain is 2.79
OOOOOOOHH what a coincidence!!! Or is it...?
@John Smith Yes,but its all worth it!!!
not a coincidence
i keep waking up to this, multiple times now.
Right click -> loop,
Best music for your ears
enlightening...ready to unlearn the past knowledge and instill new knowledge. tqvm
i woke up to this
Same! Look at the comments. Super crazy man.
8:25 yes, I picked up thinking about and tinkering with things like this again due to the pandemic. Currently trying to answer the question "How can we tell if there is something or nothing in an image?".
I've been thinking about how to make a complexity classifying deep learning neural network, but I have no idea if it's possible given the nature of complexity and computational irreducibility.
Stephen Wolfram actually is onto something very special here, which makes sense in so many ways that classical theories generally confuse. As a computational scientist (programmer :) I am finally beginning to get to put 2 and 2 together using Stephen's discoveries, and am noticing how they may apply almost everywhere I look.
This man just explained to enigmas in physics, that I think are fundamental and Paramount.
Time dilation in special relativity and momentum. Wolfram is a world treasure ✴️.
wake up, people! it's quantum mechanics!