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Dogs of Science: Discoveries & Companionship

STEMe

— New York, NY Throughout history, dogs have been remembered for their loyal and hardworking nature. However, dogs have played a separate but equally important role in science as well. Dogs have helped human scientists in making discoveries, working on important research, and even finding new scientific artifacts.

Science 52
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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

As the air rushes out of the balloon, it propels the balloon forward, vividly illustrating Newton’s Third Law of Motion – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Homemade Pendulum: Construct a simple pendulum by suspending a weight from a string.

STEM 52
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The Unknown Particles of the Universe

STEMe

When the universe was first created, there was an equal amount of matter and antimatter, but currently, there is more matter than antimatter, despite the fact that when they touch they both annihilate. Neutrinos have nearly no mass, have no charge, and travel at near lightspeed, so they are very hard to detect.

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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 it’s a fundamental claim that we’re making—that can be thought of as a matter of natural science—that in our universe only computation can occur, not hypercomputation.

Physics 114
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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. But when things are instead done by AIs or bots, there’s no such need for computational reducibility. Will there still be “human-level descriptions” that involve numbers? 1,I}]; thick=weight/len; rec= #+mid&/@(RotationMatrix[angle]. #&/@{{-len/2,-

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

Stephen Wolfram

This proof is easily obtained, however, by the method which I am about to explain… (He gives a long footnote explaining why Maxwell might be wrong, talking about how a sequence of collisions might lead to a “cycle of velocity states”—which Maxwell hasn’t proved will be traversed with equal probability in each direction.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And if we’re going to make a “general theory of mathematics” a first step is to do something like we’d typically do in natural science, and try to “drill down” to find a uniform underlying model—or at least representation—for all of them. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. &#10005.