Hypergraphs are everywhere

Wolfram Physics models the universe as a hypergraph.

Maybe I’m just seeing things, but it seems to me that hypergraphs are everywhere: physics, chemistry, biology, neurology, ecology, sociology, technology.

What I want to know is:

Why?

Why are hypergraphs everywhere?

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Molecular structure – Styrene-butadiene chain2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Guido Raos, professor of chemistry, Politecnico di Milano, Italy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Metabolic pathway – BRENDA pyrimidine metabolism https://www.brenda-enzymes.org/pathwa... by BRENDA – The Comprehensive Enzyme Information System https://www.brenda-enzymes.org/index.php licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://www.brenda-enzymes.org/licens...

Brain image – Neurons & glia https://www.flickr.com/photos/nichd/1... by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) https://www.flickr.com/photos/nichd/ licensed under CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Pelagic food web – An in situ perspective of a deep pelagic food web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by C. Anela Choy, Steven H. D. Haddock and Bruce H. Robison https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Social graph – Partitions in my social graph https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Matt Biddulph https://www.flickr.com/people/5103570... licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Internet map – Internet map https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Matt Britt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ma... licensed under CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Feynman diagram – Paarbildung https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Ivan Baev https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutze... licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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