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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

From miniscule sub-atomic particles to gargantuan black holes, the world of science deals with a dramatic range of sizes. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Synchrotron — a type of particle accelerator. billion lightyears.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Meanwhile, at the beginning of the 1800s Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) (science advisor to Napoleon) developed what became his 1822 Analytical Theory of Heat , and in it he begins by noting that : Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

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