Questions & Answers
Questions readers tend to have while going through the book — each with a short, grounded answer. These also appear in the right-hand panel of whichever page tends to prompt them.
- Are space and time the same thing in the Wolfram model?
- Does every rule have causal invariance?
- Does the universe have one true order of events?
- Does the Wolfram model derive E = mc²?
- Has the rule for our universe been found?
- How do special and general relativity differ in this model?
- How does computational irreducibility differ from chaos theory?
- How does energy-as-activity relate to ordinary physical energy?
- How does this differ from Einstein's special relativity?
- How does this relate to the many-worlds interpretation?
- If the universe is irreducible, how is physics even possible?
- Is any of this accepted physics?
- Is the universe deterministic in this model?
- What are particles in the Wolfram model?
- What does it mean for Einstein's equations to 'emerge' from rewriting?
- What is the 'entanglement horizon'?
- What is the difference between physical space and branchial space?
- What is the Ricci scalar?
- What is the speed of light in this model?
- What is universal computation, and why does it matter here?
- Where does the arrow of time come from here?
- Why do critics push back on this project?
- Why do the example rules give fractional dimensions instead of 3?
- Why do we only experience one outcome if everything branches?
- Why measure entanglement as a branchial distance?
- Why use strings of letters instead of hypergraphs in some examples?