What is life? : scientific approaches and philosophical positions

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What is life? : scientific approaches and philosophical positions

editors, Hans-Peter Dürr, Fritz-Albert Popp, Wolfram Schommers

(Series on the foundations of natural science and technology, v. 4)

World Scientific, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The book of Erwin Schrödinger about life evokes a variety of basic questions concerning the understanding of life in terms of modern physics rather than biochemistry. Problems of organization and regulation of biological systems cannot be understood by revealing only the chemical processes of the living state. A group of reputable physicists — among them the followers of Heisenberg and Fröhlich — and biologists came to this same conclusion through several workshops on this topic. This book contains their contributions, written from different viewpoints of theoretical physics and modern biology. These articles are valuable not only for understanding life, but also for creating new and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tools in medicine; they also contribute importantly to a deeper understanding of evolutionary processes, including the development of consciousness.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Introduction - What is "Nonadiabatic Transition"?
  • Multidisciplinarity
  • Historical Survey of Theoretical Studies
  • Background Mathematics
  • Basic Two-State Theory for Time-Independent Processes
  • Basic Two-State Theory for Time-Dependent Processes
  • Two-State Problems
  • Effects of Dissipation and Fluctuation
  • Multi-Channel Problems
  • Multi-Dimensional Problems
  • Complete Reflection and Bound States in the Continuum
  • New Mechanism of Molecular Switching
  • Control of Nonadiabatic Processes by an External Field
  • Conclusions: Future Perspectives.

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  • NCID
    BA58969492
  • ISBN
    • 9810247400
  • Country Code
    si
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Singapore
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 372 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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