Futurum

MAY 16, 2023

Other processes include direct melting from the Sun’s energy hitting the ice’s surface. Given that this energy varies daily and seasonally, the ice can undergo repetitive freezing and thawing, which can crack the ice sheet and lead to dramatic collapses of sections.

Geology 52

Geology Research Research Energy 52

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus. Transforming college calculus was one of the early achievements of Mathematica. Fractional Calculus.

Calculus 114

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In physics, energy (and mass) act as a “source of gravity”. But in our models of physics, energy has a rather simple (and generic) interpretation : it is effectively just the “density of activity” in the multicomputational system—or the number of events in a certain “region of space”. Chemistry / Molecular Biology.

Science 64

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In physics, energy (and mass) act as a “source of gravity”. But in our models of physics, energy has a rather simple (and generic) interpretation : it is effectively just the “density of activity” in the multicomputational system—or the number of events in a certain “region of space”. Chemistry / Molecular Biology.

Physics 65

Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 65

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The global structures of metamathematics , economics , linguistics and evolutionary biology seem likely to provide examples—and in each case we can expect that at the core is the ruliad, with its unique structure. But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus?

Physics 122

Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 122

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

But at a personal and social level it was still always a lot of fun being around Ed and being exposed to his unique intense opportunistic energy—with its repeating themes but ever-changing directions. 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).

Computer 68

Computer Physics Science Sciences 68

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

And later we’ll talk about how the “density of activity” in the branchial graph is the analog of energy in physics, and how it can be seen as “deflecting” the path of geodesics, just as gravity does in spacetime. The basic phenomenon is that geodesics are deflected by the presence of “energy”, in effect being “attracted to it”.

Mathematics 120

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 120