Beyond Physics
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A World Beyond Physics
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Author : Stuart A. Kauffman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-01
A World Beyond Physics written by Stuart A. Kauffman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-01 with Science categories.
How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex chemical environment to molecular reproduction, metabolism and to early protocells, and further evolution to what we recognize as life. Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere. Building on concepts from his work as a complex systems researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, Kauffman focuses in particular on the idea of cells constructing themselves and introduces concepts such as "constraint closure." Living systems are defined by the concept of "organization" which has not been focused on in enough in previous works. Cells are autopoetic systems that build themselves: they literally construct their own constraints on the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom that constitutes the very thermodynamic work by which they build their own self creating constraints. Living cells are "machines" that construct and assemble their own working parts. The emergence of such systems-the origin of life problem-was probably a spontaneous phase transition to self-reproduction in complex enough prebiotic systems. The resulting protocells were capable of Darwin's heritable variation, hence open-ended evolution by natural selection. Evolution propagates this burgeoning organization. Evolving living creatures, by existing, create new niches into which yet further new creatures can emerge. If life is abundant in the universe, this self-constructing, propagating, exploding diversity takes us beyond physics to biospheres everywhere.
Complementarity Beyond Physics
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Author : Arun Bala
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Complementarity Beyond Physics written by Arun Bala and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Science categories.
In this study Arun Bala examines the implications that Niels Bohr’s principle of complementarity holds for fields beyond physics. Bohr, one of the founding figures of modern quantum physics, argued that the principle of complementarity he proposed for understanding atomic processes has parallels in psychology, biology, and social science, as well as in Buddhist and Taoist thought. But Bohr failed to offer any explanation for why complementarity might extend beyond physics, and his claims have been widely rejected by scientists as empty speculation. Scientific scepticism has only been reinforced by the naïve enthusiasm of postmodern relativists and New Age intuitionists, who seize upon Bohr’s ideas to justify anti-realist and mystical positions. Arun Bala offers a detailed defence of Bohr’s claim that complementarity has far-reaching implications for the biological and social sciences, as well as for comparative philosophies of science, by explaining Bohr’s parallels as responses to the omnipresence of grown properties in nature.
Beyond The Dynamical Universe
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Author : Michael Silberstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-02
Beyond The Dynamical Universe written by Michael Silberstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with Science categories.
Theoretical physics and foundations of physics have not made much progress in the last few decades. Whether we are talking about unifying general relativity and quantum field theory (quantum gravity), explaining so-called dark energy and dark matter (cosmology), or the interpretation and implications of quantum mechanics and relativity, there is no consensus in sight. In addition, both enterprises are deeply puzzled about various facets of time including above all, time as experienced. The authors argue that, across the board, this impasse is the result of the "dynamical universe paradigm," the idea that reality is fundamentally made up of physical entities that evolve in time from some initial state according to dynamical laws. Thus, in the dynamical universe, the initial conditions plus the dynamical laws explain everything else going exclusively forward in time. In cosmology, for example, the initial conditions reside in the Big Bang and the dynamical law is supplied by general relativity. Accordingly, the present state of the universe is explained exclusively by its past. This book offers a completely new paradigm (called Relational Blockworld), whereby the past, present and future co-determine each other via "adynamical global constraints," such as the least action principle. Accordingly, the future is just as important for explaining the present as is the past. Most of the book is devoted to showing how Relational Blockworld resolves many of the current conundrums of both theoretical physics and foundations of physics, including the mystery of time as experienced and how that experience relates to the block universe.
The Physics Of The Standard Model And Beyond
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Author : Chong-sa Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2004-04-22
The Physics Of The Standard Model And Beyond written by Chong-sa Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-22 with Science categories.
This book provides a unified description of elementary particle interactions and the underlying theories, namely the Standard Model and beyond. The authors have aimed at a concise presentation but have taken care that all the basic concepts are clearly described. Written primarily for graduate students in theoretical and experimental particle physics, The Physics of the Standard Model and Beyond conveys the excitement of particle physics, centering upon experimental observations (new and old) and a variety of ideas for their interpretation.
Beyond Weird
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Author : Philip Ball
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-10-14
Beyond Weird written by Philip Ball and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-14 with Science categories.
“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don’t seem obvious or right at all—or even possible. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means—and what it doesn’t. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge—about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn’t a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it’s us.
A World Beyond Physics
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Author : Stuart A. Kauffman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
A World Beyond Physics written by Stuart A. Kauffman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Philosophy categories.
Explores the possiblity and process of evolution beyond the standard and established scientific principles.
Physics And Beyond
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Author : Werner Heisenberg
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1971
Physics And Beyond written by Werner Heisenberg and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Philosophy categories.
Beyond The Mechanical Universe
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Author : Richard P. Olenick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-12-26
Beyond The Mechanical Universe written by Richard P. Olenick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12-26 with Science categories.
This 1987 book studies electricity and magnetism, light, the special theory of relativity and modern physics.
Quantum Reality
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Author : Nick Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 1987-02-20
Quantum Reality written by Nick Herbert and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-02-20 with Science categories.
This clearly explained layman's introduction to quantum physics is an accessible excursion into metaphysics and the meaning of reality. Herbert exposes the quantum world and the scientific and philosophical controversy about its interpretation.
Beyond The Standard Model Of Elementary Particle Physics
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Author : Yorikiyo Nagashima
language : de
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-04-14
Beyond The Standard Model Of Elementary Particle Physics written by Yorikiyo Nagashima and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-14 with Science categories.
Eine sorgfältig und umfassend aufbereitete Präsentation unseres gesamten Wissens zu den großen Fragen der modernen Teilchenphysik mit Schwerpunkt auf Dunkler Materie und Dunkler Energie. Damit geht der Autor weit über das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik hinaus, das die bekannten Elementarteilchen und ihre Wechselwirkungen beschreibt. Die theoretischen Modelle und Darstellungen werden in Beziehung gesetzt aktuellen Experimenten an modernen Beschleunigerzentren wie dem CERN. Ergänzt das ausführliche zweibändige Standardwerk des Autors zur Elementarteilchenphysik.