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The general tone of the comments here seems to be 'Stephen Wolfram is a pompous ass, so we shouldn't listen to anything he has to say'. After reading through the post I think that, yes, he probably is a pompous ass (you could certainly have trimmed out the paragraphs that sound like a self-congratulatory auto-biography without losing much), but I really hope people don't just ignore this because of that. There are some legitimately interesting things going on here, and I hope other, more traditional, rigorous, and less hype-prone scientific minds are willing to dive into it to see where it leads. If it'll actually be a unification of relativity and quantum mechanics, who knows, but there's definitely _something_ here, and I'd hate for it to just get ignored because of distaste for the man. There are some actual scientific predictions here - e.g. that there is a maximum speed at which quantum entanglements can happen, analogous to the speed of light in relativity - which I hope people start thinking about ways of designing experiments for/falsifying.


Thanks for your encouraging comments! There is already a proposed observational test for the maximum entanglement rate hypothesis (based on the location of the stretched horizon in the context of black hole physics), proposed here: https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/so...




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