X-Message-Number: 19443 From: Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:55:19 EDT Subject: About S. Wolfram book --part1_ba.2894dcc7.2a5ca7b7_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is a paper about Wolfram's book: \\ Paper: quant-ph/0206089 From: Scott Aaronson <> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:30:03 GMT (17kb) Title: Book Review: 'A New Kind of Science' Authors: Scott Aaronson Comments: 11 pages, submitted to Quantum Information & Computation \\ This is a critical review of the book 'A New Kind of Science' by Stephen Wolfram. We do not attempt a chapter-by-chapter evaluation, but instead focus on two areas: computational complexity and fundamental physics. In complexity, we address some of the questions Wolfram raises using standard techniques in theoretical computer science. In physics, we examine Wolfram's proposal for a deterministic model underlying quantum mechanics, with 'long-range threads' to connect entangled particles. We show that this proposal cannot be made compatible with both special relativity and Bell inequality violation. \\ See too New Scientist, Jul. 6th issue. Y.B. --part1_ba.2894dcc7.2a5ca7b7_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19443