If you are currently stuck in self-isolation, just don't feel like playing games, and have always wondered why the universe actually exists, we have something for you here: The Physicist Stephen Wolfram is currently deciphering the universe – for everyone to watch in live streams on Twitch.
While other streamers are playing Fortnite or CoD: Warzone, the British scientist is theorizing on his Twitch channel about quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. This may sound complicated and like physics lessons, but Wolfram is not aimed at a broad streaming audience for a reason: His theory is very simple.
Because, according to Stephen Wolfram, our universe and everything that exists in it arise from a single rule that is used again and again. And the physicist wants to find exactly this rule of origin, to set up the Theory of Everything, so the ultimate theory of life, the universe and all the rest.
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He first formulated his idea in the 1990s. Recently, however, he would have had a small breakthrough with the help of two students and developed a model in which space, time, relativity, gravity and the first forms of quantum mechanics would have resulted from tiny and structureless rules simply by repetition.
The universe is not a PC, but it is similar in nature to computers. Wolfram now wants to continue spinning this theory, which bases our entire existence on a single simple rule, with his viewers. To do this, he streams to Twitch every day, usually at around 9 p.m. German time – and he already has over 4,300 Twitch followers and almost 30,000 YouTube subscribers.
Wolfram hopes through his streams Help from the community to obtain. For example in the form of VR visualizations of his universe model and something like that can actually create absurdly beautiful 3D works of art. If you want to learn more about the topic outside of the streams, there are plenty of long articles to read on Stephen Wolfram's homepage.
So if you want to be part of how a physicist may be deciphering the universe, just take a look at Twitch. And should the whole theory become too incomprehensible to you at some point, Wolfram's hours of stories may also help you as an ASMR sleep aid.
