The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-Diversity (Series on Knots and Everything) Edition

The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-Diversity (Series on Knots and Everything) illustrated edition Edition book cover

The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-Diversity (Series on Knots and Everything) illustrated edition Edition

Author(s): Steven M. Rosen (Author)

  • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
  • Publication Date: 22 Feb. 2008
  • Edition: illustrated edition
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 290 pages
  • ISBN-10: 9789812771735
  • ISBN-13: 9789812771735

Book Description

This unique book offers an original way of thinking about two of the most significant problems confronting modern theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe. In bringing out the inadequacies of the prevailing approach to these questions, the author demonstrates the need for more than just a new theory. The meanings of space and time themselves must be radically rethought, which requires a whole new philosophical foundation. To this end, the book turns to the phenomenological writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger. Their insights into space and time bring the natural world to life in a manner well-suited to the dynamic phenomena of contemporary physics.

In aligning continental thought with problems in physics and cosmology, the book makes use of topology. Phenomenological intuitions about space and time are systematically fleshed out via an unconventional and innovative approach to this qualitative branch of mathematics. The author s pioneering work in topological phenomenology is applied to such topics as quantum gravity, cosmogony, symmetry, spin, vorticity, dimension theory, Kaluza-Klein and string theories, fermion-boson interrelatedness, hypernumbers, and the mind-matter interface.

Contents: Introduction: Individuation and the Quest for Unity; The Obstacle to Unification in Modern Physics; The Phenomenological Challenge to the Classical Formula; Topological Phenomenology; The Dimensional Family of Topological Spinors; Basic Principles of Dimensional Transformation; Waves Carrying Waves: The Co-Evolution of Lifeworlds; The Forces of Nature; Cosmogony, Symmetry, and Phenomenological Intuition; The Self-Evolving Cosmos; The Psychophysics of Cosmogony.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The Self-Evolving Cosmos is an exciting, creative, interdisciplinary, and scholarly work recalling the collaboration between Hermann Weyl and Edmund Husserl on the function of mathematical intuition in cosmological physics … It is a major, ground-breaking, poetic work of powerful intelligence illustrating the use of a promising new research tool in the challenging areas of quantum and cosmological physics.”– Patrick A Heelan, William A Gaston Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, author of Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science

“Rosen writes extremely well; each sentence is deep yet meticulously crafted, as it needs to be describing a new paradigm is tricky business. This book, then, is not an easy read! It requires perusing in depth and time spent in the hiding places , the folds or nuances , in order to absorb the imagery. But Rosen’s vision, one that he has nurtured for decades, is well worth the effort.”– The Journal of Mind and Behavior

“This book offers an original way of thinking about two of the most significant problems confronting modern theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe.”Zentralblatt MATH

Rosen writes extremely well; each sentence is deep yet meticulously crafted, as it needs to be describing a new paradigm is tricky business. This book, then, is not an easy read! It requires perusing in depth and time spent in the hiding places , the folds or nuances , in order to absorb the imagery. But Rosen’s vision, one that he has nurtured for decades, is well worth the effort. –The Journal of Mind and Behavior

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