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by ahazred8ta 698 days ago
He was a child prodigy and published world-class work on quarks, QM, and subatomic particles while he was still a teenager. More recently he has been more interested in an imaginary world that only exists in his imagination and on paper. He's made a lot of discoveries there and insists that the analogy between his discoveries and the real world is major big brain stuff. He's still very productive in math and computer science, but not in physics.
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Thank you. Thats not as bad as I thought it was going to be based on the comments.
The challenge, for historians of science, is to segregate Wolfram’s genuine accomplishments, which are considerable, from this stuff.