The Galileo Interviews with Caspar Gleave podcast

Episode Three: Stephen Wolfram

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A conversation with Stephen Wolfram.

Books: A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics: https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/a-project-to-find-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics.html

A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/

The Physics Project: https://www.wolframphysics.org

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:11 Looking at Stephen Wolfram’s Educational journey

00:05:39 Things learnt in school are actually useful!

00:06:34 Particle Physics and Stephen’s early years

00:11:39 Stephen Wolfram’s first paper

00:16:19 Using computers for algebraic calculations

00:22:00 Launching his own company

00:23:00 Starting to study cellular automata

00:26:30 The importance of using technology to help advance physics

00:28:14 The advice Stephen would give to his teenage self

00:30:00 The importance of choosing the right problems

00:35:44 Stephen’s views on ‘modern’ physics

00:38:21 Ruliology and A New Kind of Science

00:40:56 Working on a generalisation of calculus?

00:45:16 Applying learnings from the Physics Project to other fields such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics

00:50:00 Physics as a remarkable export field

00:54:24 History of tools to describe the universe

00:55:17 Computation as a very general paradigm & Wolfram Language

01:00:12 Wolfram Summer Camp 01:02:40 The possibility of a special relativity of economics

01:06:21 Live streaming and open source nature of the Physics Project

01:09:18 The concept of the Ruliad

01:15:28 Taking measurements and moving through Ruliad Space?

01:22:00 Quantum mechanics and relatively - a beautiful symmetry

01:34:00 Thank you and goodbye

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