{"id":206550,"date":"2025-02-15T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/why-is-space-three-dimensional-with-stephen-wolfram"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:03:32","slug":"why-is-space-three-dimensional-with-stephen-wolfram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/why-is-space-three-dimensional-with-stephen-wolfram","title":{"rendered":"Why is space three-dimensional? with Stephen Wolfram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y9eDQbG6OaQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love his hypergraph theory.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hypergraphs can have any number of dimensions. They can be 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, 4.81-dimensional or, in the limit, \u221e-dimensional.<\/p>\n<p>So how does the three-dimensional space we observe emerge from the hypergraph-based Wolfram model?<\/p>\n<p>Why is space three-dimensional?<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wolfram\u2019s surprising answer to this questions goes deep into space, time, computation and, crucially, our nature as observers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/why-is-space-three-dimensional-with-stephen-wolfram\">Continue reading \u201cWhy is space three-dimensional? with Stephen Wolfram\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love his hypergraph theory. Hypergraphs can have any number of dimensions. They can be 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, 4.81-dimensional or, in the limit, \u221e-dimensional. So how does the three-dimensional space we observe emerge from the hypergraph-based Wolfram model? Why is space three-dimensional? Stephen Wolfram\u2019s surprising answer to this questions goes deep into space, time, computation and, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206550","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}