Time, Emergences and Communications [Hardcover]

This book presents an attempt to understand emergences in various situations where material components interact by coordinating their actions to make system with emerging properties (or functions) accessible to experimental investigation. I will endeavor to show that communications play a decisive role in these processes. A strategy will be implemented. If communications are so important, then we must show that they are an essential property of matter. This justifies the detailed analyses on the quantum world developed in the first five chapters. Also includes a study of the strange property of entanglement as well as an interpretation of the chemical bonds which cannot be circumvented in order to understand the functioning of complex systems; Living cells and animals. So the strategy consolidates as much as possible the physical foundations and the understanding of the primordial matter and then passing to the realities based on very large numbers of elementary components.

Introduction xi

Chapter 1. Quantum Physics and Information 1

1.1. Orthodox introduction to quantum physics 1

1.2. Quantum states or how nature communicates with physicists 6

1.3. Particles, information, evolution 10

1.4. Interpretation of Pauli’s exclusion principle 12

1.5. State vectors, science of orientations 14

1.6. Provisional conclusions on quantum mechanics 18

Chapter 2. Two Quantum Studies 21

2.1. Does the quantum universe observe us? 21

2.2. A detour by statistical mechanics 24

2.3. Expressive and receptive waves in quantum observation 25

2.4. Wave function fission 27

2.5. Form–energy duality in Schrödinger’s equation 29

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