<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I don't know, possibly. What Stephen and his team seem to be doing is to take some form of graph or hypergraph, and then they apply transformations to it in an iterative loop. The result gets more and more complex.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We know that some IFSs and L-Systems produce beautiful results through repeated iterations, but beauty alone is not a guarantee for a good theory. It looks interesting, but I am not sure if it really is the path to a fundamental theory :-/</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Marcus Daniels <marcus@snoutfarm.com> </div><div>Date: 4/15/20 20:39 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics </div><div><br></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wasn’t John Baez doing this stuff in the late 90s?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What do you think of Stephen Wolfram's latest findings? It is always interesting to see what he is doing IMHO<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/<o:p></o:p></p>
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