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

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. that in thermal equilibrium all possible states of the system—say, spatially uniform and nonuniform alike—are equally probable … comparable to the situation in the game of Lotto where every single quintet is as improbable as the quintet 12345.

Energy 88
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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. Then (by the assumed properties of equality) it follows that. But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus? Communicating across Rulial Space. For hypergraphs, it’s isomorphism.

Physics 121