Eradication of Superstition in Physics

Speculations and Physics

1st EDITION

Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

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C O N T E N T S

PHYSICS
    I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited
    II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy
  III. The Complexity of Simplicity
    IV. Bestowed Existence
    V. The Decoherence of Measurement
    VI. The Quantum of Continuity
  VII. Quantum Mechanics and Superstring Theories
                    SPECULATIONS

                I. Psychophysics
                II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal
              III. Turing Machines and Universes
                IV. The Science of Superstitions

GOD

          Introduction: Science, God, and Religion
      I. Is God Necessary?
      II. Is the World Necessary?
    III. Theodicy: The Problem of Evil
      IV. Miracles, Wonders, Signs
      V. Appendix: Scientific Theories
          The Author

    PHYSICS
Time Asymmetry Re-Visited
Abstract
Time does not feature in the equations describing the world of elementary particles and in some border astrophysical conditions. There, there is time symmetry.
The world of the macro, on the other hand, is time asymmetric.
Time is, therefore, an epiphenomenon: it does not characterize the parts – though it emerges as a main property of the whole, as an extensive parameter of macro systems.
In my doctoral dissertation (Ph.D. Thesis available on Microfiche in UMI and...