Bekenstein’s (1972, 1973) appeal to information-theoretic ideas in arguing that black hole entropy is genuine thermodynamic entropy has been widely debated.

Seventy years ago, John Wheeler’s student Hugh Everett wrote a dissertation proposing his theory of the universal wave function, a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics that would eventually evolve into today’s many worlds interpretation.

In 2019, the International System of Units (SI) was redefined. For many, this went by without a hitch -- and that's how it should be.

Transferring a physical system from an initial to a final state while minimizing energetic losses is an interdisciplinary control problem that bridges stochastic thermodynamics and optimal transport theory.