I asked Jonathan Gorard the question I’m asked the most: can the Wolfram model make testable predictions about reality, predictions that differ from those of general relativity and quantum mechanics, predictions that might prove that Wolfram Physics is right?

Jonathan showed how the Wolfram model might shed light on some of the most mysterious phenomena of our universe, from black hole inspirals to quantum entanglement.

He focused on four areas where the class of theories encompassed by the Wolfram model might predict observable phenomena:
1. Cosmological consequences of global dimension change
2. Astrophysical consequences of local dimension change
3. Discretization effects during extreme astrophysical events
4. Quantum mechanical effects such as maximum entanglement speed

These dozen minutes of my conversation with Jonathan were dense with insights into Wolfram Physics, a true pleasure to revisit!

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Jonathan Gorard

• Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project https://www.wolframphysics.org/people...
• Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view...
• Jonathan Gorard on Twitter   / getjonwithit  

• The Centre for Applied Compositionality http://www.appliedcompositionality.com/
• The Wolfram Physics Project https://www.wolframphysics.org/

Concepts mentioned by Jonathan

• Category error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
• Causally connected https://www.wolframphysics.org/techni...
• Cosmological inflation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflati...)
• Lambda-CDM cosmology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-...
• Horizon problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon...
• Flatness problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatnes...
• Magnetic monopole problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneti...
• Cosmic microwave background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_...
• Cosmic neutrino background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_...
• Inflaton scalar field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflaton
• Quintessent scalar field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintes...)
• Decoupling time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupl...)
• Recombination time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombi...)
• Lensing effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravita...
• LIGO – Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
• Black hole inspiral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme...
• Causal edge density https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CausalG...
• Weyl curvature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_cu...
• Quadrupole moment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupole
• Entanglement structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...
• Branchial graph https://www.wolframphysics.org/techni...
• Quantum information theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...
• Margolis Leviton bound https://researchpod.org/informatics-t...

People mentioned by Jonathan:

• Alan Guth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Guth
• Andrei Linde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_...
• Stephen Wolfram https://www.stephenwolfram.com/
• Xerxes Arsiwalla https://www.wolframphysics.org/people...
• Abdus Salam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_S...

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