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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-05-31 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-02-20 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 60,12 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-10-08 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 79,11 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-09-19 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-09-18 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-05-28 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-02-26 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 89,66 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-02-03 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-01-24 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-05-16 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 79,11 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-02-18 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 58,01 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Ultimate Horizons Helmut Satz In the last hundred years, modern physics and cosmology have shown that there exist regions of the universe forever beyond our reach, hidden by truly ultimate horizons. Such regions exist in those remote parts of the universe where, from our point of view, space expands... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-02-04 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Physics, Nature and Society Joaquín Marro This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-19 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Extraterrestrial Altruism Douglas A. Vakoch Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search forExtraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-09-14 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Language Phenomenon P.-M. Binder , K. Smith This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-04-05 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Singularity Hypotheses Amnon H. Eden , James H Moor , Johnny H Soraker , Eric Steinhart Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-04-03 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 79,11 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Natural Fabrications William Seager The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities.... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-08-13 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Probability in Physics Yemima Ben-Menahem , Meir Hemmo What is the role and meaning of probability in physical theory, in particular in two of the most successful theories of our age, quantum physics and statistical mechanics? Laws once conceived as universal and deterministic, such as Newton‘s laws of motion, or the second... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-01-10 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies From the Web to the Grid and Beyond René Brun , Federico Carminati , Giuliana Galli Carminati Born after World War II, large-scale experimental high-energy physics (HEP) has found itself limited ever since by available accelerator, detector and computing technologies. Accordingly, HEP has made significant contributions to the development of these fields, more... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-01-10 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Chips 2020 Bernd Hoefflinger The chips in present-day cell phones already contain billions of sub-100-nanometer transistors. By 2020, however, we will see systems-on-chips with trillions of 10-nanometer transistors. But this will be the end of the miniaturization, because yet smaller transistors,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-15 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 €
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