What if time is not a fundamental force but a calculation?
In short: Stephen Wolfram explores a radical shift in physics: the idea that time emerges from computation rather than existing as a basic property of reality. This video examines how rewriting universal structures might explain our existence.
In this talk, computer scientist and physicist Stephen Wolfram proposes that time is the result of the universe's underlying computational structure being progressively rewritten. Instead of viewing time as an independent dimension or a fundamental constant, he suggests it is a byproduct of how information processes at the most basic level.
Wolfram discusses how this perspective offers a new framework for understanding cosmology and quantum mechanics. By reframing reality as a series of computations, we can potentially find deeper answers about the origin of our universe.
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