Stephen Wolfram on Finding the Fundamental Physics Theory

A conversation with Stephen Wolfram.<br />Books: <br />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<br />A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/<br /><br />The Physics Project: https://www.wolframphysics.org<br /><br />00:00:00 Introduction <br />00:01:11 Looking at Stephen Wolfram’s Educational journey<br />00:05:39 Things learnt in school are actually useful!<br />00:06:34 Particle Physics and Stephen’s early years<br />00:11:39 Stephen Wolfram’s first paper<br />00:16:19 Using computers for algebraic calculations<br />00:22:00 Launching his own company<br />00:23:00 Starting to study cellular automata<br />00:26:30 The importance of using technology to help advance physics<br />00:28:14 The advice Stephen would give to his teenage self<br />00:30:00 The importance of choosing the right problems<br />00:35:44 Stephen’s views on ‘modern’ physics<br />00:38:21 Ruliology and A New Kind of Science<br />00:40:56 Working on a generalisation of calculus?<br />00:45:16 Applying learnings from the Physics Project to other fields such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics<br />00:50:00 Physics as a remarkable export field<br />00:54:24 History of tools to describe the universe<br />00:55:17 Computation as a very general paradigm & Wolfram Language<br />01:00:12 Wolfram Summer Camp<br />01:02:40 The possibility of a special relativity of economics<br />01:06:21 Live streaming and open source nature of the Physics Project <br />01:09:18 The concept of the Ruliad <br />01:15:28 Taking measurements and moving through Ruliad Space?<br />01:22:00 Quantum mechanics and relatively - a beautiful symmetry <br />01:34:00 Thank you and goodbye