The Last Theory
The Last Theory
The Last Theory
    Episode #065    
15 January 2025
Why is space three‑dimensional?
with
Stephen Wolfram
Notes

Hypergraphs can have any number of dimensions. They can be 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, 4.81-dimensional or, in the limit, ∞-dimensional.

So how does the three-dimensional space we observe emerge from the hypergraph-based Wolfram model?

Why is space three-dimensional?

Stephen Wolfram’s surprising answer to this questions goes deep into space, time, computation and, crucially, our nature as observers.

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The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of Open Web Mind

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