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*What if space itself is made of discrete atoms — and everything in the universe is just a pattern in the way those atoms connect?* Stephen Wolfram joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn for the third part of the Wolfram Physics Project, explaining how a hypergraph of "atoms of space" — rewritten moment by moment — could turn out to be the underlying structure of reality, and how Einstein's equations of general relativity emerge from this discrete substrate. Recorded April 12, 2025.
0:30 Introduction — What Is the Universe Made Of?
2:46 Atoms of Space and the Hypergraph
7:11 Time as the Rewriting of the Hypergraph
8:23 Orders of Magnitude and the Elementary Length
13:01 Deriving Einstein's Equations from the Hypergraph
15:07 Time Dilation and the Computation Budget
17:58 Energy, Momentum, and Causal Graphs
Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, where he works as chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine.
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*What if space itself is made of discrete atoms — and everything in the universe is just a pattern in the way those atoms connect?* Stephen Wolfram joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn for the third part of the Wolfram Physics Project, explaining how a hypergraph of "atoms of space" — rewritten moment by moment — could turn out to be the underlying structure of reality, and how Einstein's equations of general relativity emerge from this discrete substrate. Recorded April 12, 2025.
0:30 Introduction — What Is the Universe Made Of?
2:46 Atoms of Space and the Hypergraph
7:11 Time as the Rewriting of the Hypergraph
8:23 Orders of Magnitude and the Elementary Length
13:01 Deriving Einstein's Equations from the Hypergraph
15:07 Time Dilation and the Computation Budget
17:58 Energy, Momentum, and Causal Graphs
Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, where he works as chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine.
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