A conversation between Lee Smolin and Stephen Wolfram 

Amazed at what precisely?

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@@PetraKann your wonderful replies

@@glitchp Apologise Mr glutchop

Never heard of a Highschool dropout mathematician.

@@pascaljosiah6866 did you know they didn't even have high schools until recently 😐

Haha! Yep!

@GRUMMLER Chirality

I don't know, but it sounds a lot like what they were talking about, and I like that. Question: do you think the Universe could exist without observers?

@@____uncompetative Is every particle an Observer ? Is what ever can be as small as the Planc Length and as small as the Planc Time an Observer ? So ~ Is Everything an Observer = If it is, then the Universe cannot Exist with out Observers.

@@theknowledge.6869 To clarify, I was asking if the Universe that we have, that we observe, is the way it is so that consciousnesses exist at some point in its history. Intuitively, evolution precedes entropic heat death, but one would assume that if evolution failed universally to produce life/consciousness/observers then the universe would still have existed without observers. However, my recent thinking has been that of the problem of bootstrapping reality being resolved by a more advanced form of life (which could be us in the far future, assuming we escape the great filter and don't nuke ourselves, we don't necessarily have to assume we are not special, and alien life evolves past our level of IQ), and as we may beget Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) at some point in the next 100 years, we may gain the IQ through them to resolve a Theory of Everything and the expertise and means to harness its insights into bootstrapping creation, if it turns out we need to travel back in time to set the initial conditions a particular way to ensure our own evolution and history are not only possible, but inevitable. Time may prove to be imaginary and something observers construct out of the patterns of the present hypergraph they see at any one moment. There could be a now, and no past, and no future, with an entropic arrow and our memories being what make us observers label something that was computed and no longer exists or can be accessed as "the past". I have heard Stephen Wolfram talk about the hypergraph being zero dimensional and without time, although he has constructed a meta-take on this substrate which involves causality and commonly refers to time like familiarities where they impinge on Einsteinian models of relativity. So, I don't know ultimately, but am open to the possibility of a Final Anthropic Principle: www.physics.sfsu.edu/~lwilliam/sota/anth/SAP_FAP.htm

Seems it's Parkinson's indeed.

He does. He actually underwent surgery in Aug 2022 for a deep brain stimulation implant to manage his symptoms. He was interviewed in his hospital room next day and you can see an improvement.

@@quantummotion Glad to hear that. Thanks for the info.

He always do that

That’s just Lee Smolin.

He's got a few tics: It's just mild Tourrettes Syndrome.

Also, Check Slavoj Zizek ;)

Side effects of genius...thoughts infuse your whole being.

Lol. Matched funding doublers.

I think probably not. The cosmic microwave background provides pretty good evidence that dark matter existed back when recombination occurred. That's only a few hundred thousand years after the big bang. I think it's unlikely that so many black holes could be born and evaporate into enough dark matter on that time scale. If that did happen, I would expect the CMB anisotropies to be much larger than they are.

However, there's active research right now into whether or not so-called "primordial" black holes, which are black holes that formed in the very early universe and are still around today, could constitute some or all of the dark matter. The appeal of this hypothesis is that you don't need to suppose an entirely new class of matter that we haven't been able to detect.

Alright, could you elaborate please?

@@danwebb7144 I don't think he could elaborate.

@@danwebb7144 my issue w a simple spherical manifold is that if gravity is the metric of spacetime where is any variation of curve on sphere? And if black holes are indeed perforations of the manifold then shouldn't there be a perforation in manifold? That brings us to a toroid. Which seems more likely but we have yet to find a white hole.

@@d1psh1tc1ty i hadn't seen the comment so didn't reply

@@KaliFissure This is a pretty cool idea. If spacetime is the surface of a closed manifold, doesn't time go in a circle?

Demand side? Supply side? Brah what are u even saying.