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There Is No Theory of Everything: A Physics Perspective on Emergence

There Is No Theory of Everything: A Physics Perspective on Emergence

English, Lars Q.

Hardcover

General ScienceHistory & Philosophy of SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 3319591495
ISBN13: 9783319591490
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The main purpose of this book is to introduce a broader audience to emergence by illustrating how discoveries in the physical sciences have informed the ways we think about it. In a nutshell, emergence asserts that non-reductive behavior arises at higher levels of organization and complexity. As physicist Philip Anderson put it, more is different. Along the text's conversational tour through the terrain of quantum physics, phase transitions, nonlinear and statistical physics, networks and complexity, the author highlights the various philosophical nuances that arise in encounters with emergence. The final part of the book zooms out to reflect on some larger lessons that emergence affords us. One of those larger lessons is the realization that the great diversity of theories and models, and the great variety of independent explanatory frameworks, will always be with us in the sciences and beyond. There is no Theory of Everything just around the corner waiting to be discovered.

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