{"product_id":"emergence-in-condensed-matter-and-quantum-gravity-a-nontechnical-review-9783031098949","title":"Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity: A Nontechnical Review","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George Musser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Materials Science - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of research and philosophical positions. It is hard to get even two people to agree on anything, yet a million billion water molecules can suddenly and abruptly coordinate to lock themselves into an ice crystal or liberate one another to billow outwards as steam. The marvelous self-organizing capacity of matter is one of the central and deepest puzzles of physics, with implications for all the natural sciences. Physicists in the past century have found a remarkable diversity of phases of matter--and equally remarkable commonalities within that diversity. The pace of discovery has, if anything, only quickened in recent years with the appreciation of quantum phases of matter and so-called topological order. The study of seemingly humdrum materials has made contact with the more exotic realm of quantum gravity, as theorists realize that the spacetime continuummay itself be a phase of some deeper and still unknown constituents. These developments flesh out the sometimes vague concept of the emergence--how exactly it is that complexity begets simplicity. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45036856934551,"sku":"9783031098949","price":2543.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031098949.webp?v=1767897539","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/emergence-in-condensed-matter-and-quantum-gravity-a-nontechnical-review-9783031098949","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}