COSMIC SECRETS: BASIC FEATURES OF REALITY - Hardcover

WOLFRAM SCHOMMERS

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812836438 ISBN 13: 9789812836434

Verlag: World Scientific, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

We see objects in front of us, and experience a real material effect when we approach and touch them. Thus, we conclude that all objects are embedded in space and exist objectively. However, such experiences in everyday life cannot be transferred to the atomic level: within standard quantum theory, the material world is still embedded in space, but it no longer has an objective existence. How can objects be embedded in space without existing objectively?This book addresses this and similar issues in an illustrative and non-conventional way. Using up-to-date information, the following basic questions are contemplated: What is a particle, a quantum object? What can we say about the nature of time? How is reality, in particular the cosmos, formed? What is the influence of evolution on the discovery of new developments in this field? Like the philosophers Whitehead and Bergson, the primacy of process is advocated: we experience objects ― both quantum objects and those we experience in everyday life ― at certain positions in space, but everything is a matter of process and the existence of static objects in space is thus eliminated.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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We see objects in front of us, and experience a real material effect when we approach and touch them. Thus, we conclude that all objects are embedded in space and exist objectively. However, such experiences in everyday life cannot be transferred to the atomic level: within standard quantum theory, the material world is still embedded in space, but it no longer has an objective existence. How can objects be embedded in space without existing objectively?

This book addresses this and similar issues in an illustrative and non-conventional way. Using up-to-date information, the following basic questions are contemplated: What is a particle, a quantum object? What can we say about the nature of time? How is reality, in particular the cosmos, formed? What is the influence of evolution on the discovery of new developments in this field? Like the philosophers Whitehead and Bergson, the primacy of process is advocated: we experience objects both quantum objects and those we experience in everyday life at certain positions in space, but everything is a matter of process and the existence of static objects in space is thus eliminated.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: World Scientific
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9812836438
• ISBN 13: 9789812836434
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar