The World According to Wolfram
Brian Hayes · American Scientist · 2002
from magic. ” In the same vein, perhaps any sufficiently advanced science risks being mistaken for the raving of a crackpot. This uncomfortable thought is prompted by a book that has landed on my desk with a fivepound thud. The title promises A New Kind of Science, and inside are claims no less extravagant. “I have discovered vastly more than I ever thought possible, ” the author’s preface boasts, “and in fact what I have done now touches almost every existing area of science, and quite a bit besides. ” In 1,200 pages, this one volume—the work of one person—undertakes to explain the structure of space and time at the deepest level, clears up the mysteries of entropy and randomness, and elbows