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Title: States of Matter, States of Mind by Allan Barton, Andrew Slocombe ISBN: 0-7503-0418-9 Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Models of matter, analogies in nature
Comment: Barton has written a book that should be compulsory reading for all budding university physcists and chemists and their teachers. He deals with models, analogies and other conceptual aids that are used in describing nature. His non-mathematical text captures very essential ingredients of science which are usually omitted in textbooks proper. Is it obvious that students understand the implications of model simplifications and unspoken ideality assumptions ?. How is reality added and model enhanced ? One of the nice features is that the book really deals with various sorts of matter: not only solid, liquid and gas but also surfactants, thin films, foams, aerogels, adhesives, gels, ceramics, glasses, liquid crystals, ........
Rating: 5
Summary: A powerful thought anchor for non-science disciplines, too.
Comment: States of Matter is a beautiful critique on the models we use to understand our reality. The text is really humbling stuff -- not because I thought I "knew", but rather because it highlights that we can barely know what we don't know. This leaves us to publish an understanding of our reality that may, of course, be rigorous and functional, but at the same time must be continually subject to even total collapse as we move closer to the truth. In whole and in part, I've found compelling analogies in this book that can be practically applied across disciplines -- business, literature, etc.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful reference work for anyone studying "existence".
Comment: I found "States of Matter, States of Mind" to be an insightful compilation of the known interpretations of "matter" and forces as perceived through our limited senses and through our more highly sensitive laboratory instruments of detection. Allan Barton has done a wonderful service to all that may come across this work. One is taken through the maze of interpretations of the multiplicity of the patterns of existence - into the Classical/Newtonian - through the Quantum - and then out into the future of perception.
I keep this work close by as a reference when I do my own research and writing. I highly recommend this work to all who endeavor to perceive "reality" in its true form.
Michael Spirit
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Title: When Least Is Best : How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible by Paul J. Nahin ISBN: 0691070784 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 24 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Scientists : A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by JOHN GRIBBIN ISBN: 1400060133 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The New Quantum Universe by Tony Hey, Patrick Walters ISBN: 0521564573 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375412883 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 10 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0767908171 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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