Stephen Wolfram

MAY 25, 2021

The history of physics might make one think that numbers would be a necessary part of the structure of any fundamental theory of our physical universe. But the models of physics suggested by our Physics Project have no intrinsic reference to numbers. How do we achieve this? What the Universe Is Like.

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Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 53

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Futurum

APRIL 19, 2023

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale?

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Chemistry Biology Physics Research 52

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

And in Mathematica and the Wolfram Language that’s achieved with Integrate. And over the years that’s exactly what we’ve achieved—for integrals, sums, differential equations, etc. It’s the end of a long journey, and a satisfying achievement in the quest to make as much mathematical knowledge as possible automatically computable.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

Multicomputation is one of the core ideas of the Wolfram Physics Project —and in particular is at the heart of our emerging understanding of quantum mechanics. It’s worth mentioning that the possibility of relating games and puzzles to physics is basically something that wouldn’t make sense without our Physics Project.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

My journey in science began in the early 1970s—and by the time I was 14 I’d already written three book-length “treatises” about physics (though these wouldn’t see the light of day for several more decades). But there’s a standard way to achieve the appearance of gray, by changing the local density of black and white.

Science 63

Science Sciences Computer Physics 63

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

we’ve done something else too: we’ve started creating explicit symbolic modeling frameworks for particular kinds of physical systems that can be modeled with PDEs. We’ve already got heat transfer , mass transport and acoustics. But starting in Version 12.2 Now in Version 13.0 we’re adding solid and structural mechanics. &#10005.

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