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Fluid Laws Generic Across Different Molecules
The laws of fluid dynamics (Navier-Stokes) are essentially the same for air and for water despite the underlying molecules and their collision physics being entirely different, illustrating that large-scale laws can be generic and independent of microscopic detail, which is the same reason general relativity and quantum mechanics can be generic in the hypergraph models.
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Stephen WolframEvidence Quote
“all of their physics are quite different, all the details of what happens when those molecules collide is quite different. Yet, on a large scale, the laws of fluid dynamics are the same for air and for water.”
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics— Sean Carroll's MindscapeCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM
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