I think you're broadly right. Wolfram did some theoretical and computational physics at young age (numerical quantum chromodynamics), and in last decades he lik

I think you're broadly right. Wolfram did some theoretical and computational physics at young age (numerical quantum chromodynamics), and in last decades he likes to speculate about how all fundamental physics (3D space, matter and basic physics laws governing them) may come out of some computational process based on a simple rule. His team does computational experiments and visualizations using discrete state machines governed by simple rules. It's looking for a way to invent the Simulation.