{"id":106004,"date":"2020-04-24T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/creator-of-wolfram-alpha-has-a-bold-plan-to-find-a-new-fundamental-theory-of-physics"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:25:16","slug":"creator-of-wolfram-alpha-has-a-bold-plan-to-find-a-new-fundamental-theory-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/creator-of-wolfram-alpha-has-a-bold-plan-to-find-a-new-fundamental-theory-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Creator of Wolfram Alpha Has a Bold Plan to Find a New Fundamental Theory of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creator-of-wolfram-alpha-has-a-bold-plan-to-find-a-new-fundamental-theory-of-physics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wolfram is a cult figure in programming and mathematics. He is the brains behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\">Wolfram Alpha<\/a>, a website that tries to answer questions by using algorithms to sift through a massive database of information. He is also responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/\">Mathematica<\/a>, a computer system used by scientists the world over.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Wolfram launched a new venture: the <a href=\"https:\/\/wolframphysics.org\">Wolfram Physics Project<\/a>, an ambitious attempt to develop a new physics of our Universe.<\/p>\n<p>The new physics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/writings.stephenwolfram.com\/2020\/04\/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful\/\">declares<\/a>, is computational. The guiding idea is that everything can be boiled down to the application of simple rules to fundamental building blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Wolfram is a cult figure in programming and mathematics. He is the brains behind Wolfram Alpha, a website that tries to answer questions by using algorithms to sift through a massive database of information. He is also responsible for Mathematica, a computer system used by scientists the world over. Last week, Wolfram launched a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}