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dmmIt seems that they might have quite a bit of breakthrough in recent years, and Wolfram decided that they are ready to publicly share the results, and to try to engage wider community:
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
The original release of his "A new kind of science" book 18 years ago was quite controversial, with people noting that the ratio of actual progress and merit to hype was quite low, and also with glaring ethical problems, the worst of which was the problem of credit for authorship of the result of Turing completeness of "rule 110": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
However, it seems that things have improved, both merit-wise and ethics-wise. The results listed in the blog post above seem much more substantial, and the current development is being done in a much more open fashion:
www.wolframphysics.org/
www.wolframphysics.org/livestreams/ (the first livestreams are today)
www.wolframphysics.org/tools/ (it's pleasing to see the source for everything; of course, the dependency on the Wolfram Language remains, but if people feel acute need to port those sources to some other environments (e.g. SageMath), I don't think it would be too difficult; e.g. I was recently helping a little bit with computations to experimentally support Y-map convergence results (resulting eventually in the March 3, 2020 version of arxiv.org/abs/1906.06806 which ended up as a paper in Annales Henri Poincaré), and it turned out that SageMath was much better than Wolfram Mathematica in this sense, but that even better than SageMath was simply to use mpmath.org Python library for real and complex floating-point arithmetic with arbitrary precision directly from Python (SageMath still was extremely useful in showing us which Python library we should use))
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
The original release of his "A new kind of science" book 18 years ago was quite controversial, with people noting that the ratio of actual progress and merit to hype was quite low, and also with glaring ethical problems, the worst of which was the problem of credit for authorship of the result of Turing completeness of "rule 110": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
However, it seems that things have improved, both merit-wise and ethics-wise. The results listed in the blog post above seem much more substantial, and the current development is being done in a much more open fashion:
www.wolframphysics.org/
www.wolframphysics.org/livestreams/ (the first livestreams are today)
www.wolframphysics.org/tools/ (it's pleasing to see the source for everything; of course, the dependency on the Wolfram Language remains, but if people feel acute need to port those sources to some other environments (e.g. SageMath), I don't think it would be too difficult; e.g. I was recently helping a little bit with computations to experimentally support Y-map convergence results (resulting eventually in the March 3, 2020 version of arxiv.org/abs/1906.06806 which ended up as a paper in Annales Henri Poincaré), and it turned out that SageMath was much better than Wolfram Mathematica in this sense, but that even better than SageMath was simply to use mpmath.org Python library for real and complex floating-point arithmetic with arbitrary precision directly from Python (SageMath still was extremely useful in showing us which Python library we should use))
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Date: 2020-05-28 01:19 am (UTC)"A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics"
"A class of models intended to be as minimal and structureless as possible is introduced. Even in cases with simple rules, rich and complex behavior is found to emerge, and striking correspondences to some important core known features of fundamental physics are seen, suggesting the possibility that the models may provide a new approach to finding a fundamental theory of physics."
Over 100MB, and over 450 pages.