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Looking for the best videos on Wolfram Physics? Here’s a list of the best Wolfram Physics videos from around the web, including the best of Stephen Wolfram’s voluminous content, the best of Jonathan Gorard’s brilliant interviews, and, of course, the best of The Last Theory channel.
Sabine Hossenfelder video
This is the most measured assessment of the Wolfram Physics Project I’ve seen... and it gives proper credit to Jonathan Gorard.
Lex Fridman videos
Lex Fridman’s conversations with Stephen Wolfram on the Lex Fridman podcast are each many hours long, but every minute is crammed with insight. This is a great way to get inspired by Stephen Wolfram’s brilliant contributions to mathematics, physics and computation.
- Lex Fridman 376 – Stephen Wolfram – Round 4 – ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation 4 hours
- Lex Fridman 234 – Stephen Wolfram – Round 3 – Complexity and the Fabric of Reality 4 hours
- Lex Fridman 124 – Stephen Wolfram – Round 2 – Fundamental Theory of Physics 4½ hours
- Lex Fridman 89 – Stephen Wolfram – Round 1 – Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics 3 hours
Into the Impossible videos
Brian Keating has also had some lively conversations with Stephen Wolfram in his Into the Impossible videos, including some interesting debates with Eric Weinstein.
- What is Time? Stephen Wolfram’s Groundbreaking New Theory – Episode 468, December 2024 1½ hours
- Stephen Wolfram: My Discovery Changes Everything – Episode 388, January 2024 1½ hours
- Eric Weinstein & Stephen Wolfram: Theories of Everything – Episode 357, October 2023 2 hours
- Has Stephen Wolfram discovered a new fundamental theory of Physics? – Episode 41, April 2020 2½ hours
Other interviews with Stephen Wolfram
- Escaped Sapiens #70 | Shane Farnsworth – Building A Theory Of Everything | Stephen Wolfram – June 25, 2024 2 hours
- Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal – Solving the Problem of Observers & ENTROPY | Stephen Wolfram – Febrary 24, 2024 2½ hours
Stephen Wolfram videos
Stephen Wolfram livestreams many of his discussions about his model. These are long and sometimes difficult to follow, but they’re full of brilliant insights.
The Wolfram Physics Project:
Dimensionality:
- Dimension Evolution in the Early Universe 2½ hours
- Dimension Evolution in the Early Universe & Dimension Decay 3½ hours
Relativity:
- Solving the Einstein Equations & Other PDEs 2 hours
- Numerical Relativity, Gravitational Phenomena & Experimental Implications 2 hours
Quantum mechanics:
- Quantum Observers & NP-Completeness 2½ hours
Multicomputation:
- Foundations of Multicomputation 2½ hours
- Multiway Systems Based on Numbers 2 hours
- Generalized Multiway Systems 2½ hours
- More Examples of Multiway Systems 3 hours
Other advanced topics in Wolfram Physics:
- Topos Theory 2½ hours
- Exploring Quantum Computing 2½ hours
- Axiomatization of the Computational Universe 2 hours
Philosophical implications of Wolfram Physics:
- Observer Theory – December 12, 2023 2 hours
- Observer Theory – March 1, 2022 3 hours
Applications of the Wolfram model in other fields:
- Molecular Computation 2 hours
AI:
- Can AI Solve Science? 2½ hours
Updates on The Wolfram Physics Project:
- The Wolfram Physics Project: One-Year Celebration and Update 4 hours
- Update with Q&A 2021-10-19 3 hours
- Working session with Q&A 2021-06-08 2½ hours
- A Conversation on Current Work 2021-01-26 1½ hours
- Update and Q&A 2021-01-19 2 hours
- Future Questions for Our Physics Project 2½ hours
Jonathan Gorard videos
Jonathan Gorard was instrumental in the founding of The Wolfram Physics Project. He’s brilliant in livestreams and videos, giving deep, dense answers to many of the most important questions in Wolfram Physics.
Jonathan Gorard in conversation with Stephen Wolfram:
- Why Wolfram Physics May Be the Key to Everything – Event Horizon 1 hour
- A conversation at the Wolfram Summer School 2022-07-16 3 hours
Wolfram Physics series by Jonathan Gorard:
- Wolfram Physics I: Basic Formalism, Causal Invariance and Special Relativity 1 hour
- Wolfram Physics II: Emergent Hypergraph Geometry and General Relativity 1 hour
- Wolfram Physics III: Completion Procedures and Basic Quantum Mechanics 2 hours
- Wolfram Physics IV: Multiway Invariance and Advanced Quantum Mechanics 1 hour
Other talks by Jonathan Gorard:
- The Wolfram model – Newton 1665 Physics Seminars 1 hour
- Wolfram Model and the ZX-Calculus – Oxford ZX-Calculus Seminar 1 hour
- Fast Diagrammatic Reasoning and Compositional Approaches to Fundamental Physics – Topos Institute Colloquium 2021 1½ hours
- Hypergraph Rewriting and the Wolfram Model – GReTA seminar #10 1½ hours
- Wolfram Model and the ZX-Calculus – Cambridge Quantum Computing Seminar 1 hour
The Last Theory interviews with Jonathan Gorard:
- The founding of the Wolfram Physics Project 14 minutes
- From clockwork to computation 10 minutes
- Why I took a chance on Wolfram Physics 9 minutes
- Why hypergraphs might be a good model of the universe 10 minutes
- Graphs v hypergraphs in Wolfram Physics 6 minutes
- How to draw the hypergraph in Wolfram Physics 8 minutes
- Why I changed my mind about computational irreducibility 9 minutes
- Causal invariance versus confluence 13 minutes
- How to find causally invariant rules 5 minutes
- How to find interesting & plausible rules 8 minutes
- One rule to rule them all? 7 minutes
- Is the universe a tautology? 10 minutes
- How to derive quantum mechanics from Wolfram Physics 15 minutes
- How to derive general relativity from Wolfram Physics 13 minutes
- How special is general relativity? 6 minutes
- A toy model of particles 7 minutes
- Are electrons too big to simulate? 5 minutes
- Where’s the evidence for Wolfram Physics? 14 minutes
- Beyond physics 13 minutes
- Jonathan Gorard: the complete first interview 3 hours
Other interviews with Jonathan Gorard:
- Jonathan Gorard on compositionality, multicomputation, ontology and functoriality – Mathematical Metaphysics 1 hour
- Eigenbros podcast episode 117 1 hour
- Eigenbros podcast episode 138 1½ hours
- The Memes of Destruction 2022-01-02 1 hour
- Is There One Rule for Our Universe? – Event Horizon ½ hour
Dugan Hammock videos
Dugan Hammock, who creates amazing four-dimensional animations, has done pioneering work on plotting the evolution of the hypergraph over time.
- Living in the fourth dimension 7 minutes
- Animating the hypergraph 8 minutes
The Last Theory videos
The Last Theory is my easy-to-follow exploration of Wolfram Physics. I keep my videos short, around 10 minutes, and include plenty of hypergraphs and other animations to make them the gentlest possible introduction to these complex ideas.
What is Wolfram Physics?
- The most fundamental scientific breakthrough of our time 1 minute
- Why I’m writing about Wolfram Physics 7 minutes
- Why you’ve never heard of Wolfram Physics 8 minutes
- Is Wolfram Physics the next scientific revolution? 11 minutes
Nodes, edges, graphs & rules: the basic concepts of Wolfram Physics:
- Nodes, edges, graphs & rules: the basic concepts of Wolfram Physics 8 minutes
- Different rules, different universes 20 minutes
- Where to apply Wolfram’s rules? 13 minutes
Hypergraphs in Wolfram Physics:
- What is a hypergraph in Wolfram Physics? 12 minutes
- Unary, binary, ternary, k‑ary: hyperedges in Wolfram Physics 9 minutes
- Hypergraphs are everywhere 9 minutes
- What is the Big Bang in Wolfram’s universe? 8 minutes
- Loops and self-loops in the hypergraph 11 minutes
- How to knit the universe 11 minutes
The multiway graph:
- What is the multiway graph in Wolfram Physics? 12 minutes
- What precisely is causal invariance? 15 minutes
Space in Wolfram Physics:
- What is space? the where and the how far 9 minutes
- The expanse: dimension, separation & explosion 9 minutes
- How to measure the dimensionality of the universe 9 minutes
- Are Wolfram’s graphs three‑dimensional? 14 minutes
- What are dimensions in Wolfram’s universe? 11 minutes
- Is space continuous or discrete? 9 minutes
- Space‑time is dead 12 minutes
- How to tell if space is curved 11 minutes
- How to measure the curvature of space 16 minutes
Particles in Wolfram Physics:
- What is a particle in Wolfram’s universe? 17 minutes
Philosophy of physics:
- What is physics? the how and the why 10 minutes
- Where’s the computer that runs the universe? 12 minutes
- Beware invisible things 11 minutes
- How big is the computer that runs the universe? 16 minutes
- Why I don’t like String Theory 5 minutes
- What’s beyond the universe? 14 minutes
- Why scientific theories need not make predictions 13 minutes
Sociology of physics:
- Why has there been no progress in physics since 1973? 12 minutes
- John von Neumann and the art of being there 15 minutes
- Peer review is suffocating science 14 minutes
Stephen Wolfram:
- Who is Stephen Wolfram? 9 minutes
- In defence of Stephen Wolfram 16 minutes
Updates on The Last Theory:
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