> ...whether someone had already thought of it Stephen Wolfram certainly did in A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-

> ...whether someone had already thought of it Stephen Wolfram certainly did in A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-physics/ https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-9--fundamental-physi... And Louis Nielsen: https://www.rostra.dk/louis/ https://www.rostra.dk/louis/ And probably many others.