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Can space and time emerge from simple rules? Stephen Wolfram thinks so.

2025-06-20 Science & Technology
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Stephen Wolfram joins Brian Greene to explore the computational basis of space, time, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and reality itself. This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Participant: Stephen Wolfram Moderator: Brian Greene 0:00:00 - Introduction 01:23 - Unifying Fundamental Science with Advanced Mathematical Software 13:21 - Is It Possible to Prove a System’s Computational Reducibility? 24:30 - Uncovering Einstein's Equations Through Software Models 37:00 - Is connecting space and time a mistake? 49:15 - Generating Quantum Mechanics Through a Mathematical Network 01:06:40 - Can Graph Theory Create a Black Hole? 01:14:47 - The Computational Limits of Being an Observer 01:25:54 - The Elusive Nature of Particles in Quantum Field Theory 01:37:45 - Is Mass a Discoverable Concept Within Graph Space? 01:48:50 - The Mystery of the Number Three: Why Do We Have Three Spatial Dimensions? 01:59:15 - Unraveling the Mystery of Hawking Radiation 02:10:15 - Could You Ever Imagine a Different Career Path? 02:16:45 - Credits VISIT our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com FOLLOW us on Social Media: Facebook: / worldsciencefestival Twitter: / worldscifest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worldscifest/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@worldscifest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-science-festival #worldsciencefestival #briangreene #cosmology #astrophysics

Top Comments (10)

@nycbearff 2025-06-24

"We're nearly out of time" "oh, this is fun, let's keep going" "ok" and they talk for another hour. Excellent.

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@zhaipei 2025-06-27

these two men are so happy to talk to each other. finding somebody who can understand your thoughts is not easy.

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@davethebrahman9870 2025-06-21

Brian Greene is an excellent communicator!

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@danberm1755 2025-09-07

In my opinion Wolfram is the greatest physicist of our age. I've dedicated a good bit of my life to programming. He is the only physicist I know of that can converge the lessons from computation to physics. He's on a totally different level from anyone else: hypergraphs, rulial space, reducibility, branchial space, cellular automata, and much more. I think physicists look at computer programming as just function calling. Only with the progression of LLMs are many people realizing that programming is a framework for perception itself. A spectacularly complex and surreal view on what life really is.

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@simontulloch6882 2025-06-23

I think Stephen has definitely improved his communication style. Excellent interview.

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@williamalschuler3239 2025-06-24

This is one of the best interviews you have ever conducted. Great!

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@bryankerr6725 2025-06-24

This has been the best channel on YouTube lately. Keep it up please!

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@coder-x7440 2025-06-26

I’ve grown to love that man. Stephen Wolfram is out there doing it his way, and we get to hear the tale. Great one Professor Greene!

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@ktol8042 2025-07-02

Brian Greene is always my favorite interviewer of Wolfram. I've watched this through a full 3 times and I'm hungry for more!

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@VaShthestampede2 2025-07-30

I love this conversation. I love the interest and natural following of ideas that Brian shows in exploring the things Stephen is saying. Brian showing intellectual humility in trying to find the common-language so that he is able to follow what Stephen is saying is so refreshing for a viewer instead of just being like "Right, so anyways, as you were talking about...". Just him stopping Stephen for clarification and Stephen being able to have time to fully explain his ideas without being rushed. It's just such a refreshing conversation.

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