https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-simple-rules-bootstrap-the-laws-of-physics-20191209/
The idea here is that they’ve reduced the laws of physics down to the spin of particles. I still find that unsatisfactory and I don’t really see why the spin is inevitable or why there are particles at all.
Describing the operating system on a computer doesn’t explain why there is a computer. It feels like they are saying that because there is a computer.. there is an operating system as if that’s a given.
Update: A rebuttal: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11513
(I have no idea what this person is talking about.. it’s far to technical. His bigger point about Quanta Magazine’s quality going down the drain is sad though. I hope they are wrong.)