The Last Theory Podcast #059 - Jonathan Gorard the complete first interview

The Last Theory

Episode #059

1 June 2024

Jonathan Gorard
the complete first interview

with

Jonathan Gorard

Notes

I’ve heard from many of you that you’d like the whole of my conversation with Jonathan Gorard in a single podcast or video.

So here it is, the complete first interview.

These three hours are a brilliant exposition of Wolfram Physics from a figure whose contributions to the project are second to none.

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Jonathan Gorard

Jonathan’s seminal papers

Other research mentioned by Jonathan

SetReplace by Max Piskunov
ZX-Calculus and Extended Hypergraph Rewriting Systems I: A Multiway Approach to Categorical Quantum Information Theory – Jonathan Gorard, Manojna Namuduri, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
ZX-Calculus and Extended Wolfram Model Systems II: Fast Diagrammatic Reasoning with an Application to Quantum Circuit Simplification – Jonathan Gorard, Manojna Namuduri, Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
Plotting the evolution of a Wolfram Model in 3-dimensions by Dugan Hammock
Temporally coherent animations of the evolution of Wolfram Models by Dugan Hammock
Algorithmic Causal Sets and the Wolfram Model by Jonathan Gorard
Homotopies in Multiway (Non-Deterministic) Rewriting Systems as n-Fold Categories by Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, Jonathan Gorard, Hatem Elshatlawy
Pregeometric Spaces from Wolfram Model Rewriting Systems as Homotopy Types by Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, Jonathan Gorard
The volume of a small geodesic ball of a Riemannian manifold by Alfred Gray
Tubes by Alfred Gray

Stephen Wolfram’s writings

Concepts mentioned by Jonathan

People involved in the Wolfram Physics Project

Other people mentioned by Jonathan

Images

Calabi–Yau manifold by Andrew J. Hanson, Indiana University, who allows use with attribution
Feynman diagram by Joel Holdsworth, public domain
John von Neumann – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stanisław Ulam – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wolf-Rayet nebula – Nebula surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star WR124 in the constellation Sagittarius. (Produced with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2, Hubble Space Telescope.) – NASA – NSSDCA Photo Gallery – Yves Grosdidier (University of Montreal and Observatoire de Strasbourg), Anthony Moffat (Universitie de Montreal), Gilles Joncas (Universite Laval), Agnes Acker (Observatoire de Strasbourg) – Public domain
Stele from Retortillo by Emilio Gómez Fernández licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Spinning and chargend black hole with accretion disk by Simon Tyran, Vienna (Симон Тыран) licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Альфред Грэй в Греции by AlionaKo licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Crab Nebula, as seen by Herschel and Hubble – courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech – credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) – reproduced under JPL Image Use Policy

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