There Is No Theory of Everything

There Is No Theory of Everything

A Physics Perspective on Emergence

English, Lars Q.

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

224

Mole

Inglês

9783319865560

15 a 20 dias

454

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First Encounters.- Physical vantage points.- Here Come the Philosophers.- A brief history.- Venturing into the Microcosm.- Quantum worlds.- Which way did it go?.- Entanglement and Irreducibility.- Quantum emergence.- The Aggregation of Particles.- The arrow of time.- A Taste of Condensed Matter.- Macroscopic Phases.- Helium-3.- When Matter Reorganizes Itself.- Self-Consistency.- Renormalization.- Phases, protectorates, and emergence.- From crystals to elementary particles.- Beyond the Linear Approximation.- Chaos theory.- Self-organized patterns.- Displays of temporal order.- The Rise of Effective Theories.- A single neuron.- Descending down the rabbit hole.- Re-emerging from the rabbit hole.- Social Emergence.- Social Networks and Norm Circles.- The Wealth of Nations.- Social Beliefs and Downward Causationbsp;Science's Organizing Principles.- Science and Religion.- Religion and Emergence.- Epilogue.
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limits of reductionism;emergence in the the physical sciences;non-reductive essence of quantum entanglement;self-organization of matter;Phases, protectorates, and emergence;Self-organized patterns