To infinity and beyond!
In this episode:
- Marylea discusses a recent art show and experiences organizing events with artists in the Lower East Side.
- We share frustrations with the healthcare system, especially when dealing with minor medical issues and obtaining medications.
- Marylea explains what “getting off the margin” means in poetry.
- Gayle discusses the Wolfram Physics Project, an attempt to find a fundamental theory of physics using graph theory and simple rules to model the universe.
- We touch on computation and complexity, including irreducible complexity.
- How Wolfram’s approach might explain why other attempts at a fundamental theory haven’t aligned with observable phenomena.
- Openness and criticism of Wolfram’s Project:
- We pivot to infinity and Cantor’s Diagonal Argument, as well as countable and uncountable infinities.:
- We discuss whether the universe is discrete or continuous, including how Wolfram’s physics project suggests a discrete universe with finer granular scales relative to our perception.
- The conversation then delves into the role of infinity in calculus and physics.
Feral Polymaths 