Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The team will be investigating how to manufacture the plant-based packaging using fewer resources and chemicals, less energy, and with an eye on any other socio-ecological impacts. Nowadays, it encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), the brain-computer interface, synthetic biology, and even social and ethical analysis.

Biology 84

Biology Agriculture Engineering Critical Thinking 84

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. It had seemed for a long time that heat was something a bit like mechanical energy, but the relation wasn’t clear—and the caloric theory of heat implied that caloric (i.e.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. With hard spheres there’s built-in conservation of energy, momentum and number of particles. The First Law of thermodynamics asserted that heat was a form of energy, and that overall energy was conserved.

Computer 92

Computer Energy Physics Construction 92

Futurum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A key rule of physics is that heat energy moves from high-energy to low-energy areas. Through evaluating evidence and mapping out arguments, students can practice this important aspect of scientific communication. The expertise of geologists will be critical for the transition to clean energy.

Geology 52

Geology Energy Communications Research 52

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In physics, energy (and mass) act as a “source of gravity”. In general relativity, the singularity theorems say that when there’s “enough energy or mass” it’s inevitable that a singularity will be formed.

Physics 64

Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In physics, energy (and mass) act as a “source of gravity”. In general relativity, the singularity theorems say that when there’s “enough energy or mass” it’s inevitable that a singularity will be formed.

Science 64

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

You can give Threaded as an argument to any listable function, not just Plus and Times : &#10005. we’re adding SymmetricDifference : find elements that (in the 2-argument case) are in one list or the other, but not both. How should we then multiply each element by {1,-1} ? We could do this with: &#10005. In Version 13.1

Calculus 114

Calculus Construction Computer Argumentation 114