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The Doubochinski Pendulum – A Paradigm for Quantization Through Nonlinear Interactions
The Doubochinski pendulum is a simply-constructed nonlinear oscillator having a discrete series of stable amplitudes, which can be seen to mimic the...
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Chemistry: Modeling Activation and Transition
Major parallels are suggested between the evolution of a chemical reaction from reactants to products and that of the semantic processes that are the...
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Lagrangian possibilities
Natural modalities are often analysed from an abstract point of view where they are associated with putative laws of nature. However, the way...
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Primes and Particles
Mathematics and physics have been borrowing notions from each other for a very long time. Some mathematical object or construction provides a superb...
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Dialectics as Dynamics of Non-conservative Systems
This paper is an attempt to construct a bridge between dialectics and mathematics, to interpret main dialectical laws in terms of the theory of...
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Scaling in the Evolution of Biodiversity
Biodiversity is a fundamental concept in biology. By biodiversity scientists usually mean taxic richness, i.e., the number of species, genera, or...
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Laws beyond spacetime
Quantum gravity’s suggestion that spacetime may be emergent and so only exist contingently would force a radical reconception of extant analyses of...
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The Role of Quantum Jumps in Quantum Ontology
Quantum theory determines the evolution of quantum states between quantum jumps. Quantum theory also allows us to calculate rates of quantum jumps...
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Lawlessness
One route through which the possibility of lawlessness has entered scientific and philosophical discourse about laws of nature is Wheeler’s...
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The Relational Ontology of Contemporary Physics
Quantum theory can be understood as pointing to an ontology of relations. I observe that this reading of quantum mechanics is supported by the...
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My Discussions of Quantum Foundations with John Stewart Bell
In 1976, I met John Bell several times in CERN and we talked about a possible violation of optical theorem, purity tests, EPR paradox, Bell’s...
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Boredom and Cognitive Engagement: A Functional Theory of Boredom
The functional theory of boredom maintains that boredom ought to be defined in terms of its role in our mental and behavioral economy. Although the...
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Ethics of Quantum Computing: an Outline
This paper intends to contribute to the emerging literature on the ethical problems posed by quantum computing and quantum technologies in general....
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Quantum Waves and Indeterminacy
The topic of this chapter is an analysis of wave-particle duality. This duality is explained by observing that quantum systems propagate as waves but...
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Feynman diagrams
The way from the path integral to Feynman diagrams is sketched. The emphasis is put on the decrease of complexity in this process, from...
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Mind-Body Entanglement and Healing
The biomedical model of health exclusively focuses on the body’s dysfunctions, or even on the dysfunctioning of a single organ or a single genetic...
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On the status of quantum tunnelling time
How long does a quantum particle take to traverse a classically forbidden energy barrier? In other words, what is the correct expression for quantum...
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Physics as Modern Mathematics: From Relativity to Quantum Theory, and Beyond
This chapter addresses two key aspects of the relationships between modern mathematics and physics, relationships that developed even though the...
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Expressing Power of Elementary Quantum Recursion Schemes for Quantum Logarithmic-Time Computability
Quantum computing has been studied over the past four decades based on two computational models of quantum circuits and quantum Turing machines. To...
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Introduction
I began the Preface saying: Mathematics and physics have an intimate relationship, albeit on-and-off. Mathematics provides both machinery for...