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Monday, April 16, 2007

A New Kind of Science

A bunch of us have been working on understanding the physics of the Bussard Fusion Reactor. The subject of getting a copy of Mathematica has come up several times. What is detering us is the cost.

Since I have several students in school and know several teachers from grade school to college level I may have a way around that.

In any case when I saw this lecture by Mathematica inventor Stephen Wolfram I couldn't resist.

He explains why the universe we see is so complicated.

The essense of it is: simple rules can lead to complicated results. It is inherent in the universe.

The video is about an hour and a half.

Here is the book the lecture is based on: A New Kind of Science

Explore Wolfram Science.

Cross Posted at Classical Values
Posted by M. Simon at 4:02 AM
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1 comment:

Reliapundit said...

fascinating.

rule 30 is cool.

tho' unlike wolfram, i think i like vat 69 more.

er um... maybe i just like the way it tastes?

so far i seem to be getting the feeling that the universe has rules and that complex and seemingly random things and events are generated from a basic rule.

makes sense. it's elegant, but a little too tough for me on the first viewing.

natch i need to see it twice and read some more about it...

BUT REALLY: great post!

11:06 PM

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