On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
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No need for crank. It’s wolfram.
Hiding behind some accolades of past,
lawsuits and other tangibly criminal
offenses. The guy is smart enough
To gear projects to ends that
avoid crank threshold in the dictionary definition.
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I’m sure it can fit basically any phenomenon, including an elephant wiggling its trunk. I too would like to see some actual predictions coming out of the model, but either way, I don’t begrudge him the effort. I’d like to believe what underlies our reality is more elegant than the high level mishmash we currently understand.
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That's not the kind of model it is. The standard model is one example of a quantum field theory. You should think of Wolfram's idea as a different formalism (ie. not QFT), not a different example. It so happens that Wolfram's multiway model (allegedly, I can't evaluate it fairly for myself) also contains GR as a low-energy limit.
It's like inventing a new operating system (we currently have 3ish, Newtonian, Quantum, and GR) instead of writing a new program (baseball, orbital motion, chemistry, gravitational waves, etc.) Perhaps new programs can be written on this new OS that couldn't be written before. If known programs cannot run on this new OS then it is defective.
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#8This is from four years ago, and there are some comments on the article by Matt Kelly that show that the "interference pattern" is just an artefact. The author did not respond despite several requests to do so.
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#9Mindscape episode with Stephen Wolfram from 2021 which might also be of interest. I enjoyed it even if most of it was way over my head. It is probably overly-ambitious and probably a dead end but it's an worthy attempt (if you have the money) and he's definitely not a crank. Eccentric maybe though.
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/07/12/155-...
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I can imagine you snubbing Hamilton by going all "can the least action principle explain a single phenomenon not already explained by the forces + newton's laws? Thought not. Crank".
I have no idea what worfram's model is about, and I agree that the language he uses to publicise it is kinda twatty. However your insane criterion for what constitutes a theory/formalism worth exploring is clearly guided by your bias against the man.