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Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity (häftad, eng)
This book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of resea...
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This book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of research and philosophical positions. It is hard to get even two people to agree on anything, yet a million billion water molecules can suddenly and abruptly coordinate to lock themselves into an ice crystal or liberate one another to billow outwards as steam.
The marvelous self-organizing capacity of matter is one of the central and deepest puzzles of physics, with implications for all the natural sciences. Physicists in the past century have found a remarkable diversity of phases of matter-and equally remarkable commonalities within that diversity.
The pace of discovery has, if anything, only quickened in recent years with the appreciation of quantum phases of matter and so-called topological order. The study of seemingly humdrum materials has made contact with the more exotic realm of quantum gravity, as theorists realize that the spacetime continuum may itself be a phase of some deeper and still unknown constituents.
These developments flesh out the sometimes vague concept of the emergence-how exactly it is that complexity begets simplicity.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 95 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Springer International Publishing AG |
Utgivningsdatum | 2022-08-11 |
ISBN | 9783031098949 |
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