Some Relativistic and Gravitational Properties of the Wolfram Model
A primary technical paper by Jonathan Gorard, the project’s most-cited collaborator — the more rigorous, peer-reviewed counterpart to the relativity claims in Wolfram’s popular announcement. Companion to Wolfram’s formal paper in the same Complex Systems 29(2) issue.
What it covers (catalogued)
Derives special and general relativistic properties from the hypergraph/causal-graph formalism — including the continuum limit in which discrete causal structure is argued to approach Lorentzian spacetime, and the conditions (notably causal invariance) under which relativistic invariance holds.
Distillation status: catalogued — verified and indexed, not yet deeply read. When we write the relativity concept notes, this paper — not the blog essays — is the source to read closely and cite for the formal results.
Grounded facts we can safely state
- Authored by Jonathan Gorard (2020); arXiv 2004.14810; Complex Systems 29(2), pp. 599–654.
- It provides the formal / peer-reviewed treatment of relativity and gravity in the Wolfram model, complementing Wolfram’s technical paper.
- Causal invariance is central to its relativistic-invariance argument.
Supports concept pages
Special relativity · general relativity / curvature · causal graphs · causal invariance — formal grounding.