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wolframphysics.org — The Wolfram Physics Project portal

The project’s public hub. It hosts the formal write-up, visual and conceptual summaries, an archive of livestreamed working sessions and historical notebooks, a searchable registry of candidate rules, bulletins, a glossary, and a Q&A — all offered in a spirit of open collaboration.

Annotated resource map

• Technical Introduction — /technical-introduction/ — the canonical formal write-up (“A Class of Models…”; see its own source entry). The single most important resource for definitions.
• Registry of Notable Universes — /universes/ — a searchable catalogue of nearly a thousand WolframModel rules, each with rule code, metadata, status, and evolution visualisations. The aspiration: some catalogued rule might describe our universe. (None is claimed to.)
• Bulletins — bulletins.wolframphysics.org — ongoing short technical results from working sessions (e.g. “Confluence and Causal Invariance”).
• Technical Documents — /technical-documents/ — index of the project’s formal write-ups (Wolfram, Gorard, others).
• Tools — /tools/ — the Wolfram Language functions, runnable/free, used to build and visualise the models.
• Glossary — /glossary/ — quick definitions of the project’s terminology.
• Q&A — /questions/ — FAQ on technical points, the big picture, and getting involved.
• Visual Summary — /visual-summary/ — a largely pictorial overview.
• Working sessions — ~500 hours of recorded open working sessions (from late 2019), which feed the bulletins.

How the diagrams are generated (grounded)

The project’s images are produced with Wolfram’s own stack: the Wolfram Language (the language behind Mathematica), distributed as runnable Wolfram Notebooks. Confirmed visualisation functions:

• WolframModelPlot — visualises Wolfram-model hypergraphs (membranes for higher-arity hyperedges).
• WolframModel — runs the evolution and produces visualisations including causal graphs (result: WolframModelEvolutionObject).
• RulePlot — displays the rewrite rules.

Confirmed via the project’s Functions guide and the embedded code in Wolfram’s 2020 announcement. ⚠️ HypergraphPlot and core GraphPlot were not confirmed as the project’s plotters — the dedicated function is WolframModelPlot. (The reference.wolfram.com pages for these functions return 404 because they ship as resource/paclet functions, not core built-ins.)

Sourcing note

www.wolframphysics.org blocks automated fetchers (HTTP 403 on all paths). The map above was reconstructed from search-engine indexing of those exact pages, cross-checked against arXiv, Complex Systems, and the Wolfram Institute; all URLs were verified to resolve. Re-open the live pages to confirm exact wording.

Grounded facts we can safely state

1. The portal is the project’s public hub, launched April 2020, hosting the Technical Introduction, registry, bulletins, tools, glossary, and Q&A.
2. The Registry of Notable Universes catalogues ~1000 candidate WolframModel rules with reproducible code; none is claimed to be our universe.
3. The project is conducted openly, with ~500 hours of recorded working sessions and an archive of ~1000 notebooks.
4. Diagrams are generated in the Wolfram Language via WolframModelPlot, WolframModel, and RulePlot.
5. Physics claims on the site (relativity/QM correspondences) are the project’s own assertions and are scientifically contested.

Supports concept pages

Project overview & methodology · the model registry · how diagrams are made · glossary/terminology · where to find formal definitions.

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