On Beyond DarwinStephen Hume |
Contents
Summary | 1 |
Getting Started | 7 |
On Beyond Darwin | 17 |
The Origin of Laws | 29 |
What Needs Explanation | 39 |
The Information Content of Laws | 45 |
The Impossibility of Isolation | 53 |
Electromagnetic Interaction | 67 |
Cosmic Noise | 93 |
The Stochastic Atom | 111 |
The TwoSlit Mystery | 125 |
Trapped Inside | 145 |
Shedding Light on InverseSquare Laws | 161 |
The Nature of Things | 173 |
References | 181 |
The Energy Crisis | 79 |
Common terms and phrases
acceleration behavior believe blackbody radiation body Bohr Bohr’s Brownian motion called Causality chance chapter charged particles collision concepts conservation of energy constant Coulomb’s law Darwin describe distance effect Einstein electric charges electromagnetic field electromagnetic interaction electromagnetic waves electrons and protons equation Ernst Mach evolution excited existence explain fact force frame of reference frequency fundamental laws fundamental particles gravitational hydrogen idea inertial environment inertial frame interac inverse-square law kinetic energy law of conservation law of thermodynamics laws of electromagnetism laws of motion light magnetic mass mathematical matter means momentum moving nature neutrons Newton Newton’s laws nucleus object Open Court Publ orbit oscillator P.W. Bridgman physicist Planck’s constant produced protons quantum mechanics random influences relativity rest Schrödinger Schrödinger equation Science of Mechanics scientific scientists second law slits source charge specific spectrum speed straight line things tion two-slit uncertainty universe velocity wave-particle wave-particle duality Werner Heisenberg