A new kind of web site

I found an intriguing web site just a few moments ago and couldn’t resist posting to it.  Here is part of the post.  I will replicate it in full below.  The blog is:  http://www.existentialquestions.com .  The blog is intriguing because everyone can register and post directly to the blog as if they owned it.  (which is the intent of the owner).

For over 300 years, we have believed that rules based on mathematical equations could be used to describe the natural world. Could an even simpler set of physical rules explain creation (where we come from)? Could a simple rule, repeated an infinite number of times with a single variation applied to it create the natural universe?A New Kind of Science

Here is the whole article.

I freely acknowledge that I don’t have any idea where we come from, but it could be something as simple as varying a single element of a physical rule.

For over 300 years, we have believed that rules based on mathematical equations could be used to describe the natural world. Could an even simpler set of physical rules explain creation (where we come from)? Could a simple rule, repeated an infinite number of times with a single variation applied to it create the natural universe?

Could we replicate part of that rule in a computer program and see patterns that occur naturally in nature? Wolfram did, using a class of programs known as cellular automata. (I’ve used the title of Stephen Wolfram’s 1197-page (quarter-million+ words) book as the title of this post.) Visit his web site with an open mind – you will be amazed. http://www.wolframscience.com

Boyd Carter