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

Stephen Wolfram

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.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

With STEM, customary gender roles are broken, and it gives way to equality in every possible way. The problems STEM based careers can solve include solutions to global warming, food production, sustainable energy, and even colonization of other planets. It isn’t just students that will benefit from STEM.

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Why Choose STEM? The Best STEM Careers for 2018

CTE Learning

With STEM, customary gender roles are broken, and it gives way to equality in every possible way. The problems STEM based careers can solve include solutions to global warming, food production, sustainable energy, and even colonization of other planets. Petroleum Engineering The 21st century depends a lot on energy.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

With STEM, customary gender roles are broken, and it gives way to equality in every possible way. The problems STEM based careers can solve include solutions to global warming, food production, sustainable energy, and even colonization of other planets. It isn’t just students that will benefit from STEM.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

In more explicit form we could write this as Equal [f[x_, y_], f[f[y_, x_],y_]] —where Equal ( ) has the “known meaning” of representing equality. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. which we can read as “there exists something a for which equals a ”. &#10005. &#10005.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And the Second Law assertion that energy associated with systematic mechanical work tends to “degrade into heat” then corresponds to the fact that when there’s computational irreducibility the behavior that’s generated is something we can’t readily “computationally see through”—so that it appears random to us. But there’s even further to go.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. 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. For hypergraphs, it’s isomorphism.

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