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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More
Research Paper Stephen Wolfram Research Paper Stephen Wolfram

Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

For me the story began nearly 50 years ago—with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. We see all sorts of complexity in nature and elsewhere. But where does it come from? How is it made? There are so many examples. Snowflakes. Galaxies. Lifeforms. Turbulence. Do they all work differently? Or is there some common underlying cause? Some essential “phenomenon of complexity”?

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Some Quantum Mechanical Properties of theWolfram Model
Research Paper Jonathan Gorard Research Paper Jonathan Gorard

Some Quantum Mechanical Properties of theWolfram Model

Jonathan Gorard

By exploring hypergraph rules that deliberately break causal invariance, we show that the Wolfram Model’s multiway evolution functions like a quantum superposition whose geometry converges to projective Hilbert space. By proving that observers can “collapse” these histories via Knuth–Bendix completion—and deriving multiway analogues of Einstein’s equations, the path integral and the Schrödinger equation—we unify discrete spacetime, quantum mechanics and relativity within one framework.

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