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Reaction kinetics is a theory of changes over time in natural phenomena, and the theory begins with human understanding of the origins of the world (nature). Since the nature consists of various layers of hierarchy and changes over time, human understanding of nature must also be based on various concepts from these two aspects of hierarch and historicity. In this chapter, the characteristics of quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, and thermodynamics are first described, and the relationship between the three disciplines is derived from statistical averaging operations, either classical or quantum, with statistical physics as a mediator, and quantum mechanical averaging operations as the more fundamental. In addition, concepts such as non-equilibrium, non-stationarity, irreversibility, uncertainty, discontinuity, and so on are important to reaction kinetics and are discussed with each counterconcept. These conceptual considerations suggest the logic in this chapter that the time–energy uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, which explicitly contains time, is necessary to theoretically construct a full-fledged theory of our reaction kinetics.
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Yamamoto, S. (2023). What is Reaction Kinetics as a Scientific Cognition?—Toward Innovating Conventional Reaction Kinetics. In: Reaction Kinetics Based on Time-Energy Uncertainty Principle. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9673-3_1
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