Physics
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert B. Laughlin [Laughlin, Robert B.]

It becomes easy to imagine that lifelike patterns might emerge. A simple example of such a model is the mountain range fractal.3 A computerized map grid is refined again and ...
( Category: Physics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:David Harriman [Harriman, David]

Scientists who follow the rationalist method attempt to bypass the process of discovery. Using nothing more than imagination and deduction, they fabricate whole sciences—discovering no knowledge, while leaving no questions ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-27 | Author:Lee Smolin [Smolin, Lee]

String theory failed as a theory of physics because of the existence of a manifold of possible background spacetimes.… The long-standing crisis of string theory is its complete failure to ...
( Category: Physics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Heckert [Heckert, Paul A.]

Chapter 4 Half Life and Radioactive Dating This chapter describes the concept of a half life as applied to radioactivity and the application of half life to radioactive dating. Half ...
( Category: Physics April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Robert Lanza & Bob Berman [Lanza, Robert & Berman, Bob]

11 SPACE OUT Ye Gods! Annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. —Alexander Pope (1728) How do our animal minds apprehend the world? We’ve all been taught ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:David Jones

8 Rotating Things One of the purest examples of an idea suddenly coming from the subconscious realm of the Random-Ideas Generator to the conscious mind was that of James Watt ...
( Category: Physics April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sadi Carnot

On which he remarked, that the mean pressure is more than half the original pressure; also that in employing a quantity of steam equal to a quarter, it would produce ...
( Category: Physics April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Johnsen, Sonke

Figure 6.11: (Left) All the paths from S to P take the same amount of time, so there is strong constructive interference at P and the light passing through the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

— If one accepts this conclusion, it might be tempting to slip off into a form of idealism, positing mind alone as the absolute reality. Let us see, however, if ...
( Category: Physics April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-03-04 | Author:Penrose, Roger [Penrose, Roger]

Fig. 6.8. A probability amplitude represented as a point z within the unit circle in the Argand plane. The squared distance |z|2 from the centre can become an actual probability ...
( Category: Computer Science April 22,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Jackson

In 1806, William was packed off to England to attempt to negotiate a trade deal for the West Indian colonies. He was accompanied by his little sister Delia and his ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anton Bovier & Frank den Hollander

Inserting these bounds into (11.2.37), we arrive at (11.2.39) Choosing, as before, , we see that to leading order (11.2.39) coincides with the upper bound (11.2.26), which proves Theorem 11.2 ...
( Category: Physics April 22,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Richard Reeves [Reeves, Richard]

CHAPTER 6 Rutherford finished out the 1919 school year at Manchester, packed up the apparatus to continue the proton experiments, and took on the most prestigious position in British physics: ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wolfgang Nolting

Because of the linear independency of and this equation can only be fulfilled if A + = A − ∗ and A − = A + ∗ hold. So A ...
( Category: Physics April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rudolf P. Huebener

(8.5) In 1935, a phenomenological theory of the finite magnetic penetration depth λm was proposed by the brothers Fritz and Heinz London . For a short description of their theory ...
( Category: Engineering April 21,2018 )