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

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. And yes, in things like elastic collisions, this quantity did seem to be conserved.

Energy 88
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. And in addition to adding a great deal of flexibility, this also means that the toolbar immediately works on all platforms. (By Fractional Calculus. . &#10005. &#10005.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

The problems STEM based careers can solve include solutions to global warming, food production, sustainable energy, and even colonization of other planets. Many designer prefer being freelancers as it allows them more flexibility to work and live where they want and to choose the projects and clients they want to work for.

STEM 52
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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

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
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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

The problems STEM based careers can solve include solutions to global warming, food production, sustainable energy, and even colonization of other planets. Many designer prefer being freelancers as it allows them more flexibility to work and live where they want and to choose the projects and clients they want to work for.

STEM 52
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Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

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
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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.