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		anamax on March 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink th... Wolfram might disagree about the "lack of progress" in the fundamentals of physics. It's said that every cosmologist who dies gets to add a "law of nature" consistent with known observations. I wonder what Conway added.

antonvs on March 2, 2022 [–]

What progress would Wolfram point to? Please don't tell me the answer involves cellular automata. That's completely unsupported by any evidence.

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