Phase-transition language can illuminate not only Joseph’s story but also the history of humanity. To be clear, this is a metaphor, not a reduction. Human history is not governed by thermodynamic laws ...
This essay is the fourth installment in the series on dreams and phase transitions. It turns the metaphor operational. Having established that instability is the main symptom of impending second-order ...
Statistical mechanics provides a unifying framework to elucidate the mechanisms underpinning phase transitions and critical phenomena in diverse materials. At its core, the discipline focuses on how ...
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