Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity: A Nontechnical Review

by George Musser

This book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of research and philosophical positions. It is hard to get even two people to agree on anything, yet a million billion water molecules can suddenly and abruptly coordinate to lock themselves into an ice crystal or liberate one another to billow outwards as steam. The marvelous self-organizing capacity of matter is one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031098943
• ISBN13: 9783031098949
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"