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Intelligible Design

A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo,Manuel M. Carreira

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Intelligible Design

A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo,Manuel M. Carreira

This is an in-depth study of one of the most important and prominent Hua-ch''iao (Overseas Chinese) of twentieth-century Southeast Asian and China OCo Tan Kah-kee (1874OCo1961).For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee''s case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy and financially maintained it for sixteen years. He was the only Hua-ch''iao of his generation to have led the Chinese in South-East Asia to help China to resist the Japanese invasion in a concerted and coordinated manner. Moreover, he was the only Hua-ch''iao leader to have played both Singapore and China politics and affairs in close quarters, rubbing shoulders with British governors, Chinese officials and commanders. Finally, it is important to point out that Tan Kah-kee was the only Hua-ch''iao in his times to have combined his Pang, community and political power and influences for the advancement of community, regional and national goals.This is an in-depth study of not just Tan Kah-kee per se but also the making of a legend through his deeds, self-sacrifices, fortitude and foresight. This revised edition sheds new light on his political agonies in Mao''s China over campaigns against capitalists and intellectuals. Moreover, it analyses more comprehensively the varied legacies of Tan Kah-kee, including his successors, the style of his non-partisan political leadership, his educational strategy for nation-building, social change and OC the Spirit of Tan Kah-keeOCO, currently in vogue in his home province, Fukien.

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9814447617

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Everything Coming out of Nothing vs. A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe

By: Manuel M.,Carreira S. J.,Julio A. Gonzalo

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Everything Coming out of Nothing vs. A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe

By: Manuel M.,Carreira S. J.,Julio A. Gonzalo

Stephen Hawking, present occupant of the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University, is today one of the best known theoretical cosmologists in the world. His important contributions, in collaboration with Roger Penrose, to the physics of black holes are well known, but this does not make comparable to those of Albert Einstein, as some times is affirmed in the mainstream media. In this book, Hawking´s work as presented at the Vatican Study Week on Astrophysical Cosmology (1981), his bestseller “A Brief History of Time” (1988), his lecture on “Gödel and the end of physics” (2002), and “The Grand Design”(2010) are briefly examined. In them many philosophical questions are raised but no rigorous answers are provided. In the second half of the book, chapters on the origin of science in the Christian West, the post-Renaissance scientific revolution, the true pioneers of modern physics put contemporary cosmology in a proper perspective. The authors conclude that contemporary observational data are compatible with a finite, open and contingent universe, rather than with “everything coming out of nothing”. This book puts in a proper historical perspective, contrary to Hawking’s, that the universe is intelligible as attested by the monumental fact of modern science, and, therefore, that it is contingent, and therefore created. Very often, contemporary theoretical cosmologists ignore the crucial contributions made in Medieval Europe to the birth of modern physics. This book intends to bridge the gap in accessible language for the non specialist.

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Bentham Science Publishers

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1608054608

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The Intelligible Universe

An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo

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The Intelligible Universe

An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo

This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the ?age? of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on ?Cosmic Numbers?, it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained. /remove

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World Scientific

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9812794115

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Effective Field Approach To Phase Transitions And Some Applications To Ferroelectrics (2nd Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

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Effective Field Approach To Phase Transitions And Some Applications To Ferroelectrics (2nd Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

This book begins by introducing the effective field approach, the simplest approach to phase transitions. It provides an intuitive approximation to the physics of such diverse phenomena as liquid-vapor transitions, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, order-disorder in alloys, ferroelectricity, superfluidity and ferroelasticity. The connection between the effective field approach and Landau's theory is stressed.The main coverage is devoted to specific applications of the effective field concept to ferroelectric systems, both hydrogen bonded ferroelectrics, like those in the TGS family, and oxide ferroelectrics, like pure and mixed perovskites.

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469

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9814477508

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Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

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Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on 'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial, Madrid, on August 16-19, 1993. The Scientific Directors were John C Mather, Director of NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Radiation Explorer), and Jose M Torroja, Secretary of the Spanish Academy of Sciences. Julio A Gonzalo, UAM, was in charge of coordinating the event. The first speaker was Ralph A Alpher, one of the pioneers who predicted very early the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation). The CBR was observed by A Penzias and R Wilson, Bell Telephone Labs, in 1965. Thereafter it was measured with unprecedented precision by the COBE in 1989, characterizing the Planck spectral distribution of the CBR (J C Mather) and detecting its minute anisotropies (G Smoot). In 2003 the WMAP, NASA's satellite successor of the COBE, confirmed COBE's results, and gave an excellent quantitative estimate of the 'age' of the universe as 13.7 ± 0.2 Gyrs, in support of the Big Bang theory of cosmic origins.In the Third Edition of this book, almost coincident with the launch reports of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), includes recent work discussing evidence in favor of an open finite universe. A further discussion of the Heisenberg-Lemaitre time (Appendix D) takes into consideration that the cosmic expansion velocity at very early times is Ṙ(yHL)≫c and reviews in more detail the thermal history of the universe.

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World Scientific

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981126208X

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Cosmological Implications Of Heisenberg's Principle

By: Julio A Gonzalo

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Cosmological Implications Of Heisenberg's Principle

By: Julio A Gonzalo

The aim of this book is to analyze the all important implications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle for a finite universe with very large mass-energy content such as ours. The earlier and main contributors to the formulation of Quantum Mechanics are briefly reviewed regarding the formulation of Heisenberg's Principle. After discussing “indeterminacy” versus ”uncertainty”, the universal constants of physics are reviewed and Planck's units are given. Next, a novel set of units, Heisenberg-Lemaitre units, are defined in terms of the large finite mass of the universe. With the help of Heisenberg's principle, the time evolution of the finite zero-point energy for the universe is investigated quantitatively. Next, taking advantage of the rigorous solutions of Einstein's cosmological equation for a flat, open and mixed universe of finite mass, the most recent and accurate data on the “age” (to) and the expansion rate (Ho) of the universe and their implications are reconsidered.

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World Scientific

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9814675393

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World Population: Past, Present, & Future

By: Julio A Gonzalo,Manuel Alfonseca,Felix-fernando Munoz Perez

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World Population: Past, Present, & Future

By: Julio A Gonzalo,Manuel Alfonseca,Felix-fernando Munoz Perez

World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously. The authors from the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid (Spain), professors Julio A Gonzalo, Manuel Alfonseca, and Félix-Fernando Muñoz, point out that the recent pronounced growth in world population (accompanied by an even more pronounced growth in agricultural production) was due mainly to the increase of life expectancy and not to the (inexistent) growth in fertility rate. Using a 'rate equations' approach for the first time, they describe population trends and forecast the possibility of steps up (or down) in population rather than the exponential growth predicted by UN demographers around 1985 and thereafter. This book provides a new perspective that our planet is not overpopulated and could, in fact, house a considerably larger population.

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9813141018

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Cosmic Paradoxes

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo

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Cosmic Paradoxes

By: Julio Antonio Gonzalo

Beginning with the famous Olber's paradox, a number of cosmological paradoxes, such as the missing mass, dark energy, and the baryon-to-photon ratio, have been and are today the subject of many scientific controversies. The Big Bang model, anticipated by Lemaitre in 1927 and reformulated twenty years later by Gamow, Alpher and Herman, is one of the most spectacular successes in the entire history of physics. It remains today surrounded by considerable theoretical speculation without sufficient observational support. This book discusses such paradoxes in depth with physical and logical content and historical perspective, and has not much technical content in order to serve a wide audience.

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9814355615

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Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

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Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

By: Julio A Gonzalo

This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the “age” of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on “Cosmic Numbers”, it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained./a /remove

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Intelligible Design

Intelligible Design

Everything Coming out of Nothing vs. A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe

Everything Coming out of Nothing vs. A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe

The Intelligible Universe

The Intelligible Universe

Effective Field Approach To Phase Transitions And Some Applications To Ferroelectrics (2nd Edition)

Effective Field Approach To Phase Transitions And Some Applications To Ferroelectrics (2nd Edition)

Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition)

Cosmological Implications Of Heisenberg's Principle

Cosmological Implications Of Heisenberg's Principle

World Population: Past, Present, & Future

World Population: Past, Present, & Future

Cosmic Paradoxes

Cosmic Paradoxes

Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

Intelligible Universe, The: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years (2nd Edition)

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