In his controversial 2002 book A New Kind of Science (Wolfram Media), theoretical physicist Stephen Wolfram proposed that traditional science is incapable of fathoming many important phenomena in nature. The complexity of how galaxies formed or what the weather will be tomorrow is too much for mathematical formulas, he asserts (SN: 8/16/03, p.
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