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by tyrex2017 1913 days ago
To add one more critic: A couple minutes into the text, I still didnt read something of substance/consequence.

Lots of hand waiving and describing the usual phenomena in other terms.

I will follow this thread hoping someone points out that good stuff is coming later in the text, but I doubt it.

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> Lots of hand waiving and describing the usual phenomena in other terms.

Pretty par for the course when it comes to Stephen Wolfram. I generally find it hard to take him seriously for that very reason.

I thought it was an interesting article, I would be interested if he eventually dives into the math of it though.
> Lots of hand waiving and describing the usual phenomena in other terms.

Not even that. These are impressionistic attempts to describe physics. I suggest people look into how Wolfram says he derived special relativity from his theory.

Spoiler, had you not know special relativity you won't have the slightest idea of what it is after he claims to derive it.