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Télécharger le livre : The Computability of the World
The Computability of the World
Bernd-Olaf Küppers , Paul Woolley
In this thought-provoking book Küppers, an internationally renowned physicist, philosopher and theoretical biologist, addresses a number of science's deepest questions: Can physics advance to the origin of all things and explain the unique phenomena of life, time and...

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Parution : 2017-11-28
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Télécharger le livre : The Seneca Effect
The Seneca Effect
Ugo Bardi
The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is...

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Parution : 2017-08-22
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Télécharger le livre : Chemical Complexity
Chemical Complexity
Gerhard Ertl , Alexander S. Mikhailov
This book provides an outline of theoretical concepts and their experimental verification in studies of self-organization phenomena in chemical systems, as they emerged in the mid-20th century and have evolved since. Presenting essays on selected topics, it was prepared...

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Parution : 2017-08-10
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Télécharger le livre : The Technological Singularity
The Technological Singularity
Stuart Armstrong , Victor Callaghan , James Miller , Roman Yampolskiy
This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring the central questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity. In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active research scientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes...

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Parution : 2017-05-22
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Télécharger le livre : The Quantum World
The Quantum World
Bernard D'espagnat , Hervé Zwirn
In this largely nontechnical book, eminent physicists and philosophers address the philosophical impact of recent advances in quantum physics. These are shown to shed new light on profound questions about realism, determinism, causality or locality. The participants...

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Parution : 2017-05-08
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Télécharger le livre : Information and Interaction
Information and Interaction
Ian T. Durham , Dean Rickles
In this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world.Over recent decades, our practical...

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Parution : 2016-12-09
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Télécharger le livre : Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
Giancarlo Ghirardi , Shyam Wuppuluri
In this compendium of essays, some of the world’s leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline. With an epilogue on the limits of human understanding, this volume hosts contributions from six or more...

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Parution : 2016-12-01
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Télécharger le livre : Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods
Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods
Davina Grojnowski , Ina Wunn
This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches...

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Parution : 2016-07-27
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Télécharger le livre : Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization
Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization
Robert Ayres
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years...

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Parution : 2016-07-14
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Télécharger le livre : How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?
How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?
George Ellis
Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as...

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Parution : 2016-05-31
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Télécharger le livre : Trick or Truth?
Trick or Truth?
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the result of human creativity? Does physics simply wear mathematics like a...

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Parution : 2016-02-20
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Télécharger le livre : LIFE - AS A MATTER OF FAT
LIFE - AS A MATTER OF FAT
Luis A. Bagatolli , Ole G. Mouritsen
The present book gives a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids (fats) and the lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes.The emphasis is on the physical properties of lipid membranes seen as soft and molecularly...

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Parution : 2015-10-08
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Télécharger le livre : CHIPS 2020 VOL. 2
CHIPS 2020 VOL. 2
Bernd Höfflinger
The release of this second volume of CHIPS 2020 coincides with the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, a critical year marked by the end of the nanometer roadmap and by a significantly reduced annual rise in chip performance. At the same time, we are witnessing a data...

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Parution : 2015-09-19
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Télécharger le livre : How Should Humanity Steer the Future?
How Should Humanity Steer the Future?
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial topics that could decisively influence the course of human life on Earth. Their authors address, in accessible language, issues as diverse as: enabling our social systems...

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Parution : 2015-09-18
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Télécharger le livre : The Unknown as an Engine for Science
The Unknown as an Engine for Science
Hans J. Pirner
This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our understanding, but how they feed into the process of discovery and help to push back these borders. Starting with physics the...

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Parution : 2015-05-28
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Télécharger le livre : Why More Is Different
Why More Is Different
Brigitte Falkenburg , Margaret Morrison
The physics of condensed matter, in contrast to quantum physics or cosmology, is not traditionally associated with deep philosophical questions. However, as science - largely thanks to more powerful computers - becomes capable of analysing and modelling ever more...

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Parution : 2015-02-26
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Télécharger le livre : It From Bit or Bit From It?
It From Bit or Bit From It?
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
The essays in this book look at the question of whether physics can be based on information, or – as John Wheeler phrased it – whether we can get “It from Bit”. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition of the same name, which...

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Parution : 2015-02-03
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Télécharger le livre : Questioning the Foundations of Physics
Questioning the Foundations of Physics
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
The essays in this book look at way in which the fundaments of physics might need to be changed in order to make progress towards a unified theory. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition “Which of Our Basic Physical...

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Parution : 2015-01-24
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Télécharger le livre : The Beginning and the End
The Beginning and the End
Clément Vidal
In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it cyclic? Are we alone in the universe? What is the role of intelligent life, if any, in cosmic evolution? Grounded in...

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Parution : 2014-05-16
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Télécharger le livre : A Brief History of String Theory
A Brief History of String Theory
Dean Rickles
During its forty year lifespan, string theory has always had the power to divide, being called both a 'theory of everything' and a 'theory of nothing'. Critics have even questioned whether it qualifies as a scientific theory at all. This book adopts an objective stance,...

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Parution : 2014-02-18
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