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by qnleigh 698 days ago
Before people get too excited about this, note that Wolfram has been on about his own fundamental theory of everything for some time, and the wider physics community does not take it seriously. His book 'A New Kind of Science' has him taking credit for others' discoveries going back to Turing. Here are two recent critiques of this work:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-critic...

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089

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I think the acknowledgements in your second link are interesting:

> I thank Stephen Wolfram for an enjoyable conversation about this review;

I particularly enjoy this classic review. Very informative:

http://www.bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/