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Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

Chemistry / Molecular Biology. In thinking about chemistry we can make a much more concrete multicomputational model: the tokens are actual individual molecules (represented say in terms of bonds) and the events are reactions between them. (As Perhaps not for chemistry as it’s done today. Does this matter, though?

Science 64
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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

Chemistry / Molecular Biology. In thinking about chemistry we can make a much more concrete multicomputational model: the tokens are actual individual molecules (represented say in terms of bonds) and the events are reactions between them. (As Perhaps not for chemistry as it’s done today. Does this matter, though?

Physics 65
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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

I struggled in chemistry and I got very little support and so that meant that I couldn’t go on and take physics. “Miss Winnie, I tried to sign up for AP calculus and my counselor told me that, you know, she asked me ‘Are you sure you want to take that?' But so many students will come up to me and it will be like.

STEM 52
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

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). In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. But how can one work out the n ∞ case?