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Sub-Categories in Physics
Web Sites in Category Physics
Consciousness, Life and Meaning - Essay on evolution, consciousness
Digital Philosophy -- Discrete Physics - Assuming that all quantities, including space and time, are finite and discrete.
Discrete Physics: A New Kind of Science? - Reflections on Stephen Wolfram's new book
Event-Symmetric Space-Time - Book by Philip Gibbs, full text online, regards spacetime as a set of discrete events.
Events in History of physics - Time-lines of thermodynamics, emg, symmetry .. With links to other time-lines and resources.
Experiments in Physics - Entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory - 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 - 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 - Collection of essays, not always orthodox, but always lucid, on historical and important current issues in mathematics and physics.
Overview and history of 'quantum weirdness' - More in subcategories: Quantum Reality and Locality, Seeds and Escapes etc
Philosophical Foundations of Physics by R. Carnap - Positivist view of Physics, which had influenced the Copenhagen Interpretation of the Quantum mechanics (CI).
Philosophy and Foundations links from MIT - General + Causality + CP Violation + Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics + Spacetime Structure + Time
Philosophy of Physics - great collection of link from Kyoto University: philosophers-physicists.
Philosophy of Science - Essays on problems, history of physics, mathematics,..
Physics Time-Line - From the Copernican Revolution to superstrings, a chronology of more than 500 of the greatest discoveries in natural philosophy.
PhysicsWeb - This is Your Philosophy - Are physicists realists? - results of a poll.
Quantum Physics Links - Heterogeneous collection of QM links assembled by UK academic service BUBL
Quantum Quackery - Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection.
Review of "The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose - His exploration is so much more serious philosophically than almost anything that has been done since Einstein and Schrodinger
Robert Rosen - Understanding Life and Physics - A resource site on the works of Robert Rosen, who showed that biological systems demonstrate complexities and physics beyond the strictures of Newtonian mechanics.
Science, pseudoscience and Society - Good links: paper by Feynman on paranormal 'sciences', Sokal Affair (use of pseudo-physics in social sciences), critique of Kuhn..
Shakespeare and Thermodynamics - Dam the Second Law! - What the second law of thermodynamics is all about, and how it is constantly 'dammed' or blocked by activation energy
Space and Time: Inertial Frames - Frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle.
Symmetry in Physics - Group of motions determines the conservation laws - the fundamental principles of physics.
The Bactra Reviews - This is an excellent set of reviews, not limited to physics.
The Mind of God - A review of Paul Davies' exposition of foundational philosophical issues.
Thermodynamic Principles for the Social Sciences - Concept of Entropy, in physics, and may be beyond.
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Society > Philosophy > Metaphysics > Free Will and Determinism
Science > Physics > History
Science > Math > Applications > Complex Systems
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