Symmetry Rules How Science and Nature are founded on Symmetry
When we use science to describe and understand the world around us, we are in essence grasping nature through symmetry. In fact, modern theoretical physics suggests that symmetry is a, if not the, foundational principle of nature. Emphasizing the concepts
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Joe Rosen
SYMMETRY RULES How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry
With 86 Figures and 4 Tables
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Dr. Joe Rosen 338 New Mark Esplanade Rockville, MD 20850-2734, USA e-mail: [email protected] Series Editors: Avshalom C. Elitzur
Rüdiger Vaas
Bar-Ilan University, Unit of Interdisciplinary Studies, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel email: [email protected]
University of Gießen, Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science 35394 Gießen, Germany email: [email protected]
Mark P. Silverman
H. Dieter Zeh
Department of Physics, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA email: [email protected]
University of Heidelberg, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
Jack Tuszynski University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, Canada email: [email protected]
Cover figure: Image courtesy of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah (www.sci.utah.edu).
ISBN 978-3-540-75972-0
e-ISBN 978-3-540-75973-7
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-75973-7 Frontiers Collection ISSN 1612-3018 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007941509 © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, w
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