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Magarshak, Yuri |
Silicon Versus Carbon |
I06084 |
2009 |
eBook |
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| 32 |
Renn, J??rgen |
The Genesis of General Relativity |
I05789 |
2007 |
eBook |
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| 33 |
Dator, James A |
Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration |
I05700 |
2012 |
eBook |
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| 34 |
Wigner, E.P |
Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense |
I04576 |
1998 |
eBook |
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| 35 |
Mainzer, Klaus |
Thinking in Complexity |
I03577 |
1997 |
eBook |
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| 36 |
Brody, Thomas A |
The Philosophy Behind Physics |
I03151 |
1993 |
eBook |
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| 37 |
Wigner, Eugene Paul |
Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses |
I02034 |
1995 |
eBook |
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| 38 |
Ferrero, M |
Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics |
I01539 |
1995 |
eBook |
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| 39 |
Simon Blackburn |
Big questions: Philosophy |
024622 |
2012 |
Book |
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James Jeans |
Physics and philosophy |
023818 |
2009 |
Book |
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| Title | Silicon Versus Carbon : Fundamental Nanoprocesses, Nanobiotechnology and Risks Assessment |
| Author(s) | Magarshak, Yuri;Kozyrev, Sergey;Vaseashta, Ashok K |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2009. |
| Description | XIV, 416 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Even though there is no generally accepted definition of nanotechnologies to be defined as distinct discipline there is an emerging consensus that their advent and development is a growing in importance factor of the contemporary and future technological civilization. One of these most fundamental issues we are confronted with is the compatibility with life itself. From single cell organisms to humans, carbon is a key building block of all molecular structures of life. In contrast the man created electronic industry to build on other elements, of which silicon is the most common. Both carbon and silicon create molecular chains, although different in their internal structure. All life is built from carbon-based chains. As long as the man built technological products do not directly interfere with the physiology of life the associated risks from them are relatively easy to identify. They are primarily in the environmental pollution and the possibility of upsetting the natural balance of biocoenosis, on a planetary scale. The basic life functions are still not directly subverted. We can use TV, computers, drive cars and use other technological utilities without fear of direct interference with our cellular functions. This is in particular because all these technological utilities are many orders of magnitude larger than typical scales of biological activity. Most of biological activity, from fermentative catalysis to DNA replication takes place on nanoscale. The situation is radically different when the technological goals are building nanoscale size products. All biological processes take place on nanoscale |
| ISBN,Price | 9789048125234 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biochemical engineering
2. Biotechnology
3. Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Nanochemistry
7. PHILOSOPHY
8. Philosophy of Technology
9. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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| Title | The Genesis of General Relativity : Sources and Interpretations |
| Author(s) | Renn, J??rgen |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2007. |
| Description | VIII, 619 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It comprises key sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development. Some of these sources are presented here in translation for the first time. Einstein???s famous Zurich notebook, which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402040009 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. EPISTEMOLOGY
5. GRAVITATION
6. HISTORY
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. PHILOSOPHY
9. Philosophy and science
10. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
11. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
12. Philosophy, general
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| Title | Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense |
| Author(s) | Wigner, E.P;Mehra, Jagdish |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. |
| Description | XI, 260 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | E.P. Wigner, one of the leading scientists involved in the early development of nuclear technology, had always in mind its political and social implications. In the 60s persuing his goal of a peaceful open world he began to develop the concept of Civil Defense against nuclear attacks. Looking back one might see this as an alternative to the concept of the Nuclear Shield. The present volume contains a selection of Wigner's writings on this subject. It is annotated by Conrad Chester |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642588624 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection
4. ENGINEERING
5. Engineering, general
6. PHILOSOPHY
7. Philosophy, general
8. PHYSICS
9. Physics, general
10. Radiation protection
11. Radiation???Safety measures
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| Title | Thinking in Complexity : The Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind |
| Author(s) | Mainzer, Klaus |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1997. |
| Description | XIV, 363 p. 166 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Since the second edition sold out again in less than one year, we now present the revised edition of Mainzer's popular book. The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a successful problem-solving approach in the natural sciences from laser physics, quantum chaos, and meteorology to computer simulations of cell growth in biology. It is now recognized that many of our social, economic, ecological, and political problems are also of a global, complex, and nonlinear nature. And one of the most exciting contemporary topics is the idea that even the human mind is governed largely by the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems. Professor Mainzer, president of the German Society of Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics, discusses, in a nontechnical language, the common framework behind these endeavors. The extended edition also analyzes the new applications of complex systems to materials science, nanotechnology, and artificial life |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662132142 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. PHILOSOPHY
6. Philosophy, general
7. Popular Science, general
8. Popular works
9. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
10. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
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| Title | The Philosophy Behind Physics |
| Author(s) | Brody, Thomas A;Pena, Luis de la;Hodgson, Peter E |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. |
| Description | XII, 355 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Thomas Brody had one of the most powerful and wide-ranging intellects of his generation. Although primarily a physicist who worked on statistical prob?? lems in nuclear physics, on probability theory and on computational physics he had an extensive knowledge of the philosophy of science and of philosophy, and was fluent in many languages. He is well-known among physicists for the Brody-Moshinsky transformation but his extensive work on probability and on the philosophy of science remained almost unknown. This was because the originality of his ideas entailed many lengthy battles with uncomprehending referees, and he frequently published in Mexican journals of limited circula?? tion. In addition, his strongly critical spirit inhibited his willingness to publish his ideas. He was always most concerned by the very unsatisfactory situation in the philosophy of physics, that is largely due to the generally poor knowledge that physicists and philosophers have of each other's disciplines. Philosophers of science write at length about physics without any detailed first-hand knowl?? edge of how research is actually carried out. Physicists, for their part, often implicitly assume naive or erroneous philosophical ideas, and this often hinders their scientific work, besides spreading further confusion if they try to give an account of what they are doing |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642789786 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. PHILOSOPHY
4. Philosophy, general
5. PHYSICS
6. Physics, general
7. Popular Science, general
8. Popular works
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| Title | Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses |
| Author(s) | Wigner, Eugene Paul;Mehra, Jagdish;Wightman, Arthur S |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. |
| Description | XI, 631 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Among the founding fathers of modern quantum physics few have contributed to our basic understanding of its concepts as much as E.P. Wigner. His articles on the epistemology of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem, and the basic role of symmetries were of fundamental importance for all subsequent work. He was also the first to discuss the concept of consciousness from the point of view of modern physics. G.G. Emch edited most of those papers and wrote a very helpful introduction into Wigner's contributions to Natural Philosophy. The book should be a gem for all those interested in the history and philosophy of science. From a review by Silvan S. Schweber in Physics Today, October 1996: "All of the essays in Volume VI are at the level of the curious nonexpert who possesses a minimal command of the quantum mechanical formalism. They are rigorous, lucid and challenging." |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642783746 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. MATHEMATICS
4. Mathematics, general
5. PHILOSOPHY
6. Philosophy, general
7. PHYSICS
8. Physics, general
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| Title | Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics |
| Author(s) | Ferrero, M;van der Merwe, Alwyn |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1995. |
| Description | X, 380 p. 48 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | For many physicists quantum theory contains strong conceptual difficulties, while for others the apparent conclusions about the reality of our physical world and the ways in which we discover that reality remain philosophically unacceptable. This book focuses on recent theoretical and experimental developments in the foundations of quantum physics, including topics such as the puzzles and paradoxes which appear when general relativity and quantum mechanics are combined; the emergence of classical properties from quantum mechanics; stochastic electrodynamics; EPR experiments and Bell's Theorem; the consistent histories approach and the problem of datum uniqueness in quantum mechanics; non-local measurements and teleportation of quantum states; quantum non-demolition measurements in optics and matter wave properties observed by neutron, electron and atomic interferometry. Audience: This volume is intended for graduate students of physics and those interested in the foundations of quantum theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401585293 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
2. ATOMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Elementary particles (Physics)
6. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
7. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
8. PHILOSOPHY
9. Philosophy, general
10. PHYSICS
11. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
12. QUANTUM PHYSICS
13. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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