The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to by Steven M. Rosen

By Steven M. Rosen

This certain e-book bargains an unique frame of mind approximately of the main major difficulties confronting smooth theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe. In bringing out the inadequacies of the present method of those questions, the writer demonstrates the necessity for greater than only a new conception. The meanings of house and time themselves has to be noticeably rethought, which calls for an entire new philosophical origin. To this finish, the e-book turns to the phenomenological writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger. Their insights into house and time carry the wildlife to lifestyles in a fashion well-suited to the dynamic phenomena of up to date physics.

In aligning continental concept with difficulties in physics and cosmology, the publication uses topology. Phenomenological intuitions approximately area and time are systematically fleshed out through an unconventional and cutting edge method of this qualitative department of arithmetic. the writer s pioneering paintings in topological phenomenology is utilized to such subject matters as quantum gravity, cosmogony, symmetry, spin, vorticity, measurement concept, Kaluza-Klein and string theories, fermion-boson interrelatedness, hypernumbers, and the mind-matter interface.

Contents: advent: Individuation and the search for harmony; The difficulty to Unification in sleek Physics; The Phenomenological problem to the Classical formulation; Topological Phenomenology; The Dimensional kinfolk of Topological Spinors; easy rules of Dimensional Transformation; Waves wearing Waves: The Co-Evolution of Lifeworlds; The Forces of Nature; Cosmogony, Symmetry, and Phenomenological instinct; The Self-Evolving Cosmos; The Psychophysics of Cosmogony.

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By Steven M. Rosen

This certain e-book bargains an unique frame of mind approximately of the main major difficulties confronting smooth theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe. In bringing out the inadequacies of the present method of those questions, the writer demonstrates the necessity for greater than only a new conception. The meanings of house and time themselves has to be noticeably rethought, which calls for an entire new philosophical origin. To this finish, the e-book turns to the phenomenological writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger. Their insights into house and time carry the wildlife to lifestyles in a fashion well-suited to the dynamic phenomena of up to date physics.

In aligning continental concept with difficulties in physics and cosmology, the publication uses topology. Phenomenological intuitions approximately area and time are systematically fleshed out through an unconventional and cutting edge method of this qualitative department of arithmetic. the writer s pioneering paintings in topological phenomenology is utilized to such subject matters as quantum gravity, cosmogony, symmetry, spin, vorticity, measurement concept, Kaluza-Klein and string theories, fermion-boson interrelatedness, hypernumbers, and the mind-matter interface.

Contents: advent: Individuation and the search for harmony; The difficulty to Unification in sleek Physics; The Phenomenological problem to the Classical formulation; Topological Phenomenology; The Dimensional kinfolk of Topological Spinors; easy rules of Dimensional Transformation; Waves wearing Waves: The Co-Evolution of Lifeworlds; The Forces of Nature; Cosmogony, Symmetry, and Phenomenological instinct; The Self-Evolving Cosmos; The Psychophysics of Cosmogony.

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Once again, the object is what is 22 THE SELF-EVOLVING COSMOS observed, whereas space is the medium or means by which the observation is made. In observing the object, we bring it into focus as a figure that stands out from its spatial background. A fundamental characteristic of the well-focused object is that the boundary separating its interior region from what lies outside of it is clearly demarked. Naturally, without such a boundary, the object could possess no internal structure. Space, for its part, constitutes the context of infinite boundedness within which the object’s finite particular boundaries are able to form (see Chapter 1).

His attitude was that continuity must be preserved in a relatively concrete way, without too great a compromise to classical intuition. Yes, the old notion of three-dimensional space plus time now did have to be replaced by the four-dimensional space-time continuum. Nevertheless, the intuition of a unitary geometric continuum was to be kept intact. Quantum mechanics, for its part, did not seek to dispel discontinuity in this concretely intuitive fashion but gave itself the license to proceed counter-intuitively; it allowed microphysical discontinuity, though formalistically imposing upon it an abstract continuity, as noted above.

158) Nevertheless, while the theory generally conforms to what would be expected of “any sensible physical theory,” this is a far cry from providing a specific set of infinity-free equations for quantum gravity. Thus far, it is only in principle that string theory eliminates the infinities found in the standard model. Accordingly, Greene is quick to acknowledge that, since the theory has not yet reached a mature stage of development, the jury is still out on it, despite the great promise he believes it holds for unifying the forces of na- The Obstacle to Unification in Modern Physics 37 ture.

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