Physics
Categories
- Mind-Body, Consciousness, Quantum Computing (20)
- Physics in Popular Culture (17)
- Quantum Reality and Locality (25)
- Seeds and Escapes (21)
- Time and Timelessness (19)
Links
A New Kind of Science - critical review
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1
Detailed and critical review by Ray Kurzweil of the book by Stephen Wolfram.
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
Science from the point of view of complex systems: from the origins of apparent randomness in physical systems, to the development of complexity in biology.
Consciousness, Life and Meaning
http://www.thymos.com/tat/emergenc.html
Essay on evolution and consciousness by Piero Scaruffi.
Digital Philosophy -- Discrete Physics
http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/
Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete.
Events in History of Physics
Time-lines of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and symmetry. With links to other time-lines and resources.
Experiment in Physics
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
On the uses, value, and epistomelogy of experiment. By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado.
Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/
Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Steven French.
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kuhn.htm
Crucial chapter from Kuhn's famous book outlining how sciences is forced to go through a paradigm-shift, and see the world in terms of a new theory and new concepts.
MathPages: Physics
http://www.mathpages.com/home/iphysics.htm
Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/carnap.htm
Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).

