The Decisive Simplification: Why the Algorithmic Model Prevails

This is a critique of the following paper, which was recently promoted on The University of British Columbia website and is currently being propagated on Twitter. Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything Mir Faizal, Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir, Francesco Marino General relativity treats spacetime as dynamical and exhibits its breakdown at singularities. This … Continue reading The Decisive Simplification: Why the Algorithmic Model Prevails

Stephen Wolfram’s Fundamental Theory of Physics

"We have such a simple rule. Yet applying this rule over and over again produces something that looks really complicated. It’s not what our ordinary intuition tells us should happen. But actually—as I first discovered in the early 1980s—this kind of intrinsic, spontaneous generation of complexity turns out to be completely ubiquitous among simple rules … Continue reading Stephen Wolfram’s Fundamental Theory of Physics