I’ve now watched several videos, particularly a few with the ‘math lead’ of the Wolfram’s physics project, and I now do not think that the “physics community does not take Wolfram’s ideas seriously”. It seems like they do in fact have a good set of contributors and are making great progress (relative to expectations).
You’re absolutely right that it could be “all hype and no substance”, tho I don’t think that’s even a remote possibility beyond just physics. (The ‘math’ alone seems interesting, which is ‘more than enough’ IMO for any possible ‘math’ that someone might want to study/explore.)
A paper they’ve published (and one that’s available on the project’s website) about (some aspects of) relativity:
I’ve now watched several videos, particularly a few with the ‘math lead’ of the Wolfram’s physics project, and I now do not think that the “physics community does not take Wolfram’s ideas seriously”. It seems like they do in fact have a good set of contributors and are making great progress (relative to expectations).
You’re absolutely right that it could be “all hype and no substance”, tho I don’t think that’s even a remote possibility beyond just physics. (The ‘math’ alone seems interesting, which is ‘more than enough’ IMO for any possible ‘math’ that someone might want to study/explore.)
A paper they’ve published (and one that’s available on the project’s website) about (some aspects of) relativity:
Some Relativistic and Gravitational Properties of the Wolfram Model [PDF]
(I haven’t read it myself yet.)