Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics

Emergence In Physics for Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

Emergence in Physics The concept of emergence in philosophical discussions is closely connected with the notions of antireductionism, unpredictability, and novelty. In many cases these latter concepts are explicated in mereological terms. Very crudely, something is emergent when it (the whole) is greater than the sum of its parts. Alternatively, the behavior of the emergent whole does not reduc...

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the first importance. Behnke has demonstrated that the "lean body mass," since it represents the active tissue of a person, is superior to reference standards hitherto proposed for the estimation of physiological functions such as the masses of various organs and tissues and the volumes of the different fluid compartments in the body. In the present article, which has been reprinted as a short ...

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Timeline of Nuclear Physics

The reader must understand that this is not a total outline of the development of physics but what I deem is the line of discoveries that leads directly to the development of atomic energy. As an example I offer thermodynamics. For this, I could develop a separate trail with some similar names such as Maxwell who besides work on electrodynamics did fundamental work on the kinetic energy of gass...

Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics