Sublime

He argues that a low entropy, or predictable and stable, carrier is required for the emergence of knowledge -- whether it be a fiber optic cable and communication, or a social system governed by the rule of law and economic innovation. Such a social system is not spontaneous, but rather developed through sacrifice and a religious order.

The Chinese-American mathematician Shing-Tung Yau has led a decades-long effort to construct definitions of mass and angular momentum within general relativity. https://t.co/kTIUpZB4iZ https://t.co/XUk6ZX0ZKo

The nineteenth-century German physicist Ludwig Boltzmann proposed a daring solution to this problem. Boltzmann suggested that perhaps the universe is, in fact, in a state of overall equilibrium. Nevertheless, by chance alone, there will arise more orderly pockets of disequilibrium here and there (Fig. 3). Boltzmann refers to these isolated regions

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The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of closed physical systems always tends to increase, meaning that systems march from order to disorder. Think of dropping a dash of ink into a glass of clear water. The initial state, the one in which the drop of ink is localized in a gorgeous swirl, is information-rich. There are few ways

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Theoretical Minimum Book Series by Leonard Susskind; 1. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics https://t.co/EAzvUYGJJh

So, I agree when you say we shouldn’t categorize the economy. We shouldn’t observe the economy and be like, “Oh, that’s a harmonic oscillator.” Yeah. “That’s an Ising model.” No. But we should absorb the data. We should observe the economy, and think in the physicist way of saying, “Okay, this is what I see. Let me think of a way of describing it.”

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