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Digital informatics and isotopic biology : self-organization and isotopically diverse systems in physics, biology and technology /
Digital Informatics and Isotopic Biology discusses self-organization and the emergence of order at the atomic scale with a particular emphasis on the digital information that can be carried by proper ordering of stable isotopes. This ushers in the concept of isotopic biology as a complimentary level...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2016]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP expanding physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Energy and information
- 2.1. The relativity and contextuality of major physical categories
- 2.2. Boltzmann-Shannon informational entropy
- 2.3. Digital strings and normal numbers
- 2.4. Universal and eternal records, or why pi is not exactly three
- 2.5. Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel
- 3. Chaos and self-organization in random systems
- 3.1. Dichotomy of order and chaos
- 3.2. Nature's quest for patterns
- 3.3. Pythagoras, 'everything is a number' and modern physics
- 3.4. Digital Pythagoreanism and the omega number
- 3.5. Universal emergence and the 'Platonic pressure effect'
- 3.6. Cantor, Gödel and 'ultimate issues'
- 3.7. It from bit and the Leibnitz principle
- 3.8. Mandelbrot sets and the infinite intricacy of the Platonic world
- 3.9. Symmetry breaking and the emergence of order
- 3.10. Electrostatic ordering and ionic crystals
- 3.11. Rene Thom's catastrophe theory and electrostatic phase transitions
- 3.12. The problem of 'N dictators'
- 4. Isotopicity in physics and engineering
- 4.1. Stable and radioactive isotopes
- 4.2. Isotopicity meme
- 4.3. Milestones of isotopes
- 4.4. Isotopic curiosity and prime numbers
- 4.5. Isotopic freedom and many facets of isotopicity
- 4.6. My 'Newton's apple' of isotopicity
- 4.7. Isotopic fiber optics
- 4.8. Isotopic information storage (digital isotopicity)
- 4.9. Isotopic superlattices
- 4.10. Isotopic quantum wells
- 4.11. Isotopic tribology
- 4.12. Isotopic effects in corrosion
- 4.13. Isotopes in quantum computing
- 4.14. Isotopic random number generators
- 4.15. Isotopic randomness as symmetry breaking factor
- 4.16. Instability of isotopically mixed systems
- 4.17. The cosmic scales of nuclear wave functions
- 5. Isotopicity in biology and in the theory of consciousness
- 5.1. Mechanistic and holistic approaches to consciousness
- 5.2. The observer effect in quantum physics
- 5.3. The holomovement of David Bohm and universal entanglement
- 5.4. Biological implications of isotopic diversity
- 5.5. The concept of isotopic biology
- 5.6. Isotopic biology and subtle genetic messages
- 5.7. Isotopicity in nano and biomedical technology
- 5.8. Unstable isotopes and biological information
- 5.9. Isotopicity in consciousness dynamics : Anderson localization
- 5.10. Isotopic castling
- 5.11. Neutron tunneling and quantum consciousness
- 5.12. Isotopicity and the Gaia concept
- 5.13. Isotopicity and personal identity
- 5.14. Isotopes : a 'secret tool' of nature's creativity?
- 5.15. Is Nature 'isotopically smart'?
- 5.16. Isotopic ordering in liquids and 'soft structures'
- 5.17. Isotopic neural networks
- 6. Discovery and innovation in our digital society
- 6.1. The blessings and evils of global interconnectedness and digitization
- 6.2. The paths and mazes of science and discovery
- 6.3. Premature and delayed discoveries
- 6.4. The Mobius strip and recycling bins
- 6.5. More delayed discoveries
- 6.6. Big science and peer review
- 6.7. Orthodoxies and heresies
- 6.8. The crowd mentality and the interdisciplinary paradox
- 6.9. Going 'around' the system : isotopicity as an example
- 6.10. Random creativity and Laputa machines
- 6.11. Living in the Matrix--physics reloaded
- 7. Conclusion. Message to the young reader.