{"id":240121,"date":"2026-07-01T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-secret-code-behind-the-universe-stephen-wolfram"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:08:18","slug":"the-secret-code-behind-the-universe-stephen-wolfram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-secret-code-behind-the-universe-stephen-wolfram","title":{"rendered":"The secret code behind the universe | 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\/kISw4rBzAoo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Simple rules. Infinite complexity. Physicist Stephen Wolfram has spent forty years working out the connection. Here\u2019s the short version.<\/p>\n<p>\u274d Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/welcometothewell\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/welcometothewell<\/a>.<br \/> \u274d Up next: Why the answers to big questions are fundamentally unknowable | L.A. Paul \u2022 Why the answers to big decisions are funda\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Physicist Stephen Wolfram spent decades running computer experiments on simple rules \u2014 not looking for anything grand, just seeing what happened. What he found turned into a model of how the universe works, an explanation for why evolution never gets stuck, and a mathematical argument for why your life can\u2019t be shortcut or predicted by anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full video transcript: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/the-unive\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/the-unive<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u274d About The Well \u274d<\/p>\n<p>Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life\u2019s biggest questions, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re the questions occupying the world\u2019s brightest minds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-secret-code-behind-the-universe-stephen-wolfram\">Continue reading \u201cThe secret code behind the universe | Stephen Wolfram\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple rules. Infinite complexity. Physicist Stephen Wolfram has spent forty years working out the connection. Here\u2019s the short version. \u274d Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: https:\/\/bit.ly\/welcometothewell. \u274d Up next: Why the answers to big questions are fundamentally unknowable | L.A. Paul \u2022 Why the answers to big decisions are funda\u2026 Physicist Stephen Wolfram spent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240121","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=240121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}