What is time in Wolfram Physics?

Sign up for my newsletter at https://lasttheory.com/ Physics, the way we’ve thought about it for the last few hundred years, requires us to make assumptions about time. In our old way of thinking, just as we must assume three axes of space – scales along which we can measure what’s where – so we must assume an axis of time – a scale along which we can measure what happens when. It doesn’t matter whether, like Newton, we assume an absolute scale along which we can measure what happens when according to a giant clock in the sky, or whether, like Einstein, we assume a relative scale along which we can measure what happens when according to a tiny clock in each and every reference frame. Either way, we must assume an axis of time. Wolfram Physics, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to make any assumptions about time. We need only posit the application of rules to the nodes and edges of the hypergraph, and time emerges. The evolution of the hypergraph is time... ...which gives us a profound clue, not just to the nature of time, but to the nature of the universe. — References • The canonical mass of a neutron star is 1.4 solar masses https://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/~verbiest/Teaching/Galactic_Astronomy/Reports/Grohnert-Pulsars.pdf • The mass of the Sun is 1.988416 × 10^30 kg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_mass • The mass of a neutron is 1.67492750056(85) × 10^-27 kg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron • So the number of neutrons in a neutron star, assuming neutron stars are made entirely of neutrons (which they’re not), is 1.4 × 1.988416 × 10^30 kg / 1.67492750056(85) × 10^-27 kg ~ 10^57 Credits • Pulsar animation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightsmall-optimised.gif by Michael Kramer http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~mkramer/Animations.html licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en • Retina image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retina1.jpg by د.مصطفى الجزار licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en — The Last Theory https://lasttheory.com/ is hosted by Mark Jeffery https://markjeffery.com/ founder of Open Web Mind https://www.openwebmind.com/ Prefer to listen to the audio? Search for The Last Theory in your podcast player, or listen at https://lasttheory.com/podcast/079-what-is-time-in-wolfram-physics The full article is at https://lasttheory.com/article/what-is-time-in-wolfram-physics Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.