The modern natural science picture of the world /

Intended for a wide range of readers, this book shows the objective beauty of science. It highlights the features of the micro-, macro-, and microcosm, and discusses the role and importance of the fundamental constants of the observed universe. It examines the behavior of the human organism as an op...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Khapachev, Yuri (Autor), Dyshekov, Arthur (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
Temas:
Science > Miscellanea.
Sciences > Miscellanées.
Science.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Preamble
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The World as a Physical System
  • Chapter 1 Discourse and intuition. Criterion of evidence. The problem of scientific axiomatics
  • Chapter 2
  • Discretion and continuity in nature. Fundamental world constants and levels of the organization of matter
  • Chapter 3
  • Conservation laws as a consequence of symmetry. Properties of space and time
  • Chapter 4 The space-time continuum as a conse quence of a fundamental constant
  • the speed of light
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6 We enter the microcosm. The Planck constant and the wave of de Broglie. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Spin
  • Chapter 7 Four fundamental interactions: gravitational, electromagnetic, weak and strong
  • Chapter 8 Scenario of the evolution of the Universe
  • Chapter 9 Macrocosm. Laws of equilibrium. Thermodynamics. The Boltzmann constant
  • Chapter 10 Self-organization. Diss ipative structures. The Glansdorff-Prigogine evolution criterion
  • Chapter 11 Criterion of relative ordering of living systems. Evolution and degradation. The main regularities of the mathem atical theory of rearrangements
  • Part II: Chemical Systems
  • Chapter 12 The transition state lifetime as the fundamental chemical constant
  • Chapter 13 Catalysis, its criteria and essen ce. The Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
  • Chapter 14 Conceptual systems of chemistry
  • Chapter 15 Chemical evolution and biogenesis The Modern Natural Scienc e Picture of the World ix
  • Part III: Living Systems Chapter
  • 16 Biological axioms and biological constants
  • Chapter 17
  • Chapter 18 Physiological bases of vital activity. Living information systems
  • Chapter 19 Metabolism and homeostasis
  • Chapter 20 Adaptive, compensatory-adaptive, and pathological reactions of the body
  • Chapter 21 Higher nervous activity and mental functions. Consciousness
  • Chapter 22 Structure and classification of human needs
  • Chapter 23 Psychosomatic disorders
  • Conclusion: The problem of the evolution of science
  • Bibliography.

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