Should you take Wolfram’s physics seriously?
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9 min readApr 24, 2020
Stephen Wolfram recently announced his new Physics Project, an attempt to rethink how we do physics in terms of simple operations on abstract structures. And already there are people in the physics community expressing opinions about it ranging from disapproval to disinterest.
As non-physicists, what should be our take? Awe? An indifferent shrug? An eye roll? Is it really worth our time…