Télécharger le livre :  Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order
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Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrödinger’s cat, the EPR paradox, or the nonlocality demanded by Bell’s inequalities have hampered philosophers in their attempts to...

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Parution : 2006-10-25
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emerging Physics of Consciousness
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Consciousness is one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the concerted actions of nerve cells and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? Can such feelings be explained by...

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Parution : 2006-09-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life
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Thermodynamics was created in the ?rst half of the 19th century as a theory designed to explain the functioning of heat engines converting heat into mechanical work. In the course of time, while the scope of research in this ?eld was being extended to a wider and wider...

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Parution : 2006-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?
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For more than a century, quantum mechanics has served as a very powerful theory that has expanded physics and technology far beyond their classical limits, yet it has also produced some of the most difficult paradoxes known to the human mind. This book represents...

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Parution : 2006-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime
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Puts the emphasis on conceptual questions: Why is there no such thing as absolute motion? What is the physical meaning of relativity of simultaneity? But, the most important question that is addressed in this book is "what is the nature of spacetime?" or, equivalently,...

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Parution : 2006-02-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Extreme Events in Nature and Society
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Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing...

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Parution : 2006-02-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Information and Its Role in Nature
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Information and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of information and its role in the control of natural processes. After a brief review of classical and quantum information theory, the author addresses numerous central...

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Parution : 2005-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Life - As a Matter of Fat
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LIFE - as a Matter of FatLipidomics is the science of the fats called lipids. Lipids are as important for life as proteins, sugars, and genes. The present book presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids...

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Parution : 2005-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dual Nature of Life
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Life is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth, characterized by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies from nonliving material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long defied precise definition. This book from a seasoned biologist offers new...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2005-07-25
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