Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.

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The Science Penguin

AUGUST 11, 2023

The NGSS organizes the Disciplinary Core Ideas into four major domains: Physical Sciences (PS) Life Sciences (LS) Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) Engineering, Technology, and the Applications of Science (ETS) Each domain includes grade-appropriate concepts that build upon one another as students progress through their education.

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Jacobs Physics

MARCH 11, 2023

If that extra distance is a wavelength - or any number of full wavelengths - than the interference is constructive, and you see a bright spot. That extra distance traveled means that one beam is at a different spot in its wave cycle than the other beam. If that extra distance is a half-wavelength - or 1.5 wavelengths, 2.5 wavelengths, etc.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. The system is doing a computation to determine its behavior.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 25, 2023

Ensure that your arguments are supported by sound logic and valid evidence. Practicing logical reasoning: Logical reasoning allows us to identify patterns, draw connections between different ideas, and construct logical arguments based on evidence. This helps us approach problems systematically and arrive at sound conclusions.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. What do students learn from studying this?

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

we have a new symbolic construct, Threaded , that effectively allows you to easily generalize listability. 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.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 29, 2022

I felt like I had jumped forward in time 20 years and was watching a physics course from the future. There are some arguments that aren't data-based but seem logical; for example one of my colleagues points to the difficulty of budgeting attention properly in an online setting as an argument for in-person classes.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 14, 2022

An instantaneous moment (or perhaps a single elementary time from our Physics Project )? In physics textbooks, it’s traditional to carefully distinguish absolute temperatures, measured in kelvins, from temperature scales, like degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. Oh, and then what granularity of time are you talking about? In Version 13.2

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Supports conclusions with logical arguments. Supports conclusions with logical arguments. See this year in assessment overview for a HS physical science class for some ideas on how that might work out. Demonstrates understanding of science concepts. Collects, interprets, and applies data. Grades 4-5 1. Grades 6-8 1.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs): This is what students should know and covers 4 content areas: Physical Science (PS) Life Science (LS) Earth and Space Science (ESS) Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science (ETS) Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs): These practices are how students will learn science and engineering.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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PHYSICS! BLOG!

JULY 6, 2017

I will use something similar, with a little tweaking for next year in the 10th grade physics class, too. Unit 01: Physical Properties of Matter. Identify and describe the differences in physical properties between mixtures and pure substances. Explain energy ideas in words and construct arguments that use diagrams as evidence.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. In the language of our Physics Project, it’s the ultimate limit of all rulial multiway systems. And here is a rulial multiway system made from hypergraph rewriting of the kind used in our Physics Project , using all rules with signature : &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. The other books I’d read had all basically said “physics works like this”. The lambda hyperon.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then for each function (or other construct in the language) there are pages that explain the function, with extensive examples. One new construct added in Version 13.1 —and And now there’s a way to specify that, using Threaded : In a sense, Threaded is part of a new wave of symbolic constructs that have “ambient effects” on lists.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

We introduced Duration to apply to explicit time constructs, things like Audio objects, etc. And, yes, when you try to run the function, it’ll notice it doesn’t have correct arguments and options specified. that isn’t directly related to typing, but will help in the construction of easy-to-navigate user interfaces.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. But our Physics Project has changed that picture. Why does the Second Law work?

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In preparation for a conference entitled “ Distributed Consensus with Cellular Automata & Related Systems ” that we’re organizing with NKN (= “New Kind of Network”) I decided to explore the problem of distributed consensus using methods from A New Kind of Science (yes, NKN “rhymes” with NKS) as well as from the Wolfram Physics Project.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

Having this as a single function makes it easier to use in functional programming constructs like this: &#10005. But sometimes it’s much more convenient to get the subgraph (and in fact in the formalism of our Physics Project that subgraph—that we view as a “ geodesic ball ”—is a rather central construct). So in Version 12.3

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