Wolfram Physics is based on hypergraphs.

Why?

What is it about hypergraphs that might make them a better model of the universe than, say, strings of characters, or cellular automata, or Turing machines?

When I asked Jonathan Gorard this question, he gave an answer that was deeply insightful.

It’s such a core question, so fundamental to why we should take the Wolfram model seriously, that I’ve listened to Jonathan’s answer over and over.

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Jonathan Gorard

• Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project
• Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University
• Jonathan Gorard on Twitter

• The Centre for Applied Compositionality
• The Wolfram Physics Project

People and Concepts mentioned by Jonathan

• Roger Penrose
• Rafael Sorkin
• Tommaso Bolognesi

• Causal Set Theory

• Hasse diagram

• Riemannian distance

• Strings (of characters)
• Cellular automata
• Turing machines

• Lorentz invariance
• General covariance

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