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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. then goes on to develop what’s now called the heat equation and all sorts of mathematics around it, all the while effectively adopting a caloric theory of heat.

Energy 88
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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus? And we can trace the argument for this to the Principle of Computational Equivalence. Communicating across Rulial Space. We’ve talked about building up the ruliad using Turing machines.

Physics 121