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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics—Stephen Wolfram Writings

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Stephen Wolfram applies lessons learned from the Wolfram Physics Project to construct a proper framework to explain why--and to what extent--the Second Law of thermodynamics is true.

Contents Top The Mystery of the Second Law The Core Phenomenon of the Second Law The Road from Ordinary Thermodynamics Reversibility, Irreversibility and Equilibrium Ergodicity and Global Behavior How Random Does It Get? The Concept of Entropy Why the Second Law Works Textbook Thermodynamics Towards a Formal Proof of the Second Law Maxwell's Demon and the Character of Observers The Heat Death of the Universe Traces of Initial Conditions When the Second Law Works, and When It Doesn't The Second Law and Order in the Universe Class 4 and the Mechanoidal Phase The Mechanoidal Phase and Bulk Molecu

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