General Physics

Note: From 1987 to 2020, Stephen Wolfram’s intellectual efforts have not primarily been reported in academic articles.

For new academic publications, see the Wolfram Physics Project.

1983

Properties of the Vacuum. 1. Mechanical and Thermodynamic » Ambjørn, J. and S. Wolfram. Annals of Physics 147, no. 1 (1983): 1–32.

Properties of the Vacuum. 2. Electrodynamic » Ambjørn, J. and S. Wolfram. Annals of Physics 147, no. 1 (1983): 33–56.

1985

Undecidability and Intractability in Theoretical Physics » Wolfram, S. Physical Review Letters 54, no. 8 (1985): 735–738.

Origins of Randomness in Physical Systems » Wolfram, S. Physical Review Letters 55, no. 5 (1985): 449–452.

Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamics with Cellular Automata » Salem, J. B. and S. Wolfram. Thinking Machines Corporation technical report, 1985.

1986

Minimal Cellular Automaton Approximations to Continuum Systems » Wolfram, S. Poster presented at Cellular Automata ’86, Cambridge, MA, 1986.

Cellular Automaton Fluids 1: Basic Theory » Wolfram, S. Journal of Statistical Physics 45, no. 3–4 (1986): 471–526.