Summary: We discuss the relations between the more abstract notion of entropy and the ideas of information using nonlinear partial differential equations as an example. Hyperbolic equations of the first order, where vanishing of the characteristics in a discontinuity may be interpreted as loss of ...
each electron occupies a single chair and cannot drop to a lower tier if all its chairs are occupied. This fundamental property of atomic physics is known as the Pauli exclusion principle, and it explains the shell structure of atoms, the diversity of the periodic table of elements, and the ...
A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms Franco Blezza Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science ((HMMS,volume 42)) 260 Accesses Abstract Physics can be considered a Medical Humanity, and more generally a Humanity: for this reason, it can make many ...
In light of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that thermodynamic entropy in isolated systems cannot decrease, the equal probability state with maximal entropy may be called the ultimate euphoria state without innovations (UESWI), where ultimate is used to emphasize that this is an ...
This fundamental principle is the basis of many scientific studies, including thermodynamics and electricity. 3.Cell Theory:The cell theory is a fundamental concept in biology. It states that all living organisms are composed of cells, and cells are the basic structural and functional units of ...
Last but not least, we will address the question of whether cellular sensing involves computations that can be understood using ideas from the thermodynamics of computation [10, 48]. Cells seem to copy the ligand-binding state of the receptor into chemical modification states of downstream readout...
Cause-effect sequences are emergent due to the second law of thermodynamics from symmetric interactions, or perhaps even more fundamentally, structural relations. But the history of science makes me leery of declaring anything absolutely fundamental. It seems like all we can do is talk about what ...
The recent technical implementations are based on that paradigm and became bottlenecks of computing performance. The paper proposes a new computing paradigm (extending the old one to use several processors explicitly) and discusses some ideas of its possible implementation. Some advantages of the ...
A great revolution came with Boltzmann, who made the connection between Newton’s deterministic laws of motion and thermodynamic ideas of the difference between heat and work. His work showed that the laws of thermodynamics emerged at a large scale from a combination of Newton’s laws for each ...
These ideas are not without their problems, which I won't go into here in detail. But there is anew idea out therethis year, courtesy ofErik Verlinde. The basic idea is thatgravity is just a consequence of thermodynamics. (For an explanation of how one could visualize this,go here.) ...