Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mrwilliamchang 3847 days ago
Here's my attempt at a summary. Wolfram speculates that the universe is a network of nodes and connections. This network changes over time by simple substitution rules. Specific patterns in the network give rise to effects that on the larger scale that we experience as the physical world. He has shown that if you model the universe this way, you can neatly derive special relativity and general relativity. He is also doing a brute-force search through networks to look for one that exhibits properties like our universe.

I'm curious if I got it wrong.