Mid-day to all.....sitting here waiting on the game tonight and just did a 420 with NL # 3.................................
and decided to do some intrawebs surfing , trying to find something to stimulate my feeble cranial sphere , when I stumble upon a subject that i enjoy researching and trying to understand better ......Quantum Physics...............................strange and interesting things going on and I am NOT any kind of expert on it as it has thrown my idea of Physics for a loop with it's unpredictability...........
Now I saw a variant of this called emergent phenomena.......................
Quantum mechanics – the behavior of the Universe at the smallest of scales – continues to surprise us, with scientists now having been able to successfully create a quantum object called a domain wall in laboratory settings.
"It's kind of like a sand dune in the desert – it's made up of sand, but the dune acts like an object that behaves differently from individual grains of sand," says physicist Kai-Xuan Yao from the University of Chicago.
www.nature.com
The term emergent is used to evoke collective behaviour of a large number of microscopic constituents that is qualitatively different than the behaviours of the individual constituents. This usage is appealingly intuitive but problematically ill-defined: it is vague concerning what qualifies as a large number and what constitutes a qualitative difference. In some contexts, an anthropic definition is offered—something is qualitatively new if it cannot be straightforwardly understood in terms of known properties of the constituents.
Among the many shortcomings of this definition, perhaps the most glaring is that it implies that as soon as something is understood it ceases to be emergent; this would mean that understanding the emergent properties of quantum materials (a major focus of this journal) would be oxymoronic.
More broadly still, the modifier ‘emergent’ sometimes appears simply as a colloquial indication that a particular property is of great fundamental importance, and thus newsworthy and highly fundable. Consequently, the term has become somewhat politically charged arising in debates over which subfields of physics are more fundamental; those that are the most reductionist which focus on the physics of the smallest constituents, or those that are least sensitive to microscopic details and thus focus on universal emergent behaviours. Integrating its uses across disciplines, the proper definition of emergence becomes even less clear. In evolutionary biology, emergence often refers to a dynamical process by which new species or new biological structures emerge. In certain philosophical contexts, a form of strong emergence is used to account for the apparent logical gap separating that which is determined by the laws of physics from such basic human characteristics as identity, the existence of a soul and free will.
An emergent behavior of a physical system is a qualitative property that can only occur in the limit that the number of microscopic constituents tends to infinity.
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this is just part of the definition of emergent phenomena and the thing that strike's me the most is the usage of emergent , then when something is understood it ceases to be emergent.....
definition of emergent................................
adjective:
emergent
in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent.
"blockchains are still an emergent technology"
- PHILOSOPHY
(of a property) arising as an effect of complex causes and not analyzable simply as the sum of their effects.
"one such emergent property is the ability, already described, of an established ecosystem to repel an invading species"
Man , I'm really stoned ...........................................I really really am ..............................................................
Living our life , one minute at a time.....................and enjoying every second , of that minute , of that hour , of that day , of that week , of that month , of that year , of that decade , of that existence we call LIFE..................................Inhaling and exhaling oxygen without thinking about doing it ........Same as being happy ....We do it without thinking about it ........CAN YOU DO IT ?????.........HAVE YOU TRIED LATELY ??.............Spontaneous activity brings so much joy and lightens the world up from it's dark shadows ...............Remember what it felt like to be child-like ?????.........
It's still there inside your mind ............Brush the cobwebs away ........concentrate on those memories ..............then use those memories as a strengtyh to guide you to a happier life .......PLEASE............PLEASE , DO IT .................................
