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antiparticle   20-21
opposite directions across some field?

balance of nature   30
a mature forest contains aging trees and grows slowly

black holes   45-47
basically unconnected to universe   45
teeny black holes 10^-33 cm   47

black-body radiation   48-49
can a perfectly absorbing body store infinite energy??   48
nope - atoms can't absorb or emit all wavelengths, causing some to leak out   49

quantum leap   51
discrete change in orbitals

boltzmann constant   54
statistical mechanics; (1/2)mv^2 = kT
point this to the search for 137
oh yeah boltzmann gave up and died by suicide   54
accurate models of the world are not guaranteed to be accepted by anyone just because they are correct. hearing this, existential materialists will nod their heads; moral philosophers and Gramscians should be very worried

brewster's law   58
light takes the shape of electro-magnetic fields; polarization is the way the electric field points

brownian motion   59
showed there really are countable atoms

degeneracy pressure of electrons   69
stops white dwarfs from collapsing if they are below Chandrasekhar limit

Cherenkov radiation   77
when you outrun light inside glass you create a light boom

chronology protection conjecture   78
anthropic principle for time
"if time is a dimension--" it might not be though, quantum fields can be interpreted as dimensions, but on that dimension activity moves stochastically
Giratina is one of the only accurate portrayals in fiction of "extra dimensions", because it is a fanciful portrayal of quantum fields having two directions that separate the domain of matter from antimatter, and the Distortion World is intended to be separated from the regular world by its characteristics. if it were perfectly accurate it would destroy trainers the moment they walk in, of course, but a creature made of antimatter is not actually that weird if it was somehow surrounded by antimatter hadrons, skies, and platforms.

competitive exclusion principle   85
differential resource utilization   121
natural resources are slotted; extirpation appears to depend on the question of successfully finding a slot
competitive exclusion of species, due to amount or slotting, doesn't occur because they form niches
this is not necessarily an ironclad physical law but the pattern keeps recurring

complementarity principle   86-87
beam of electrons behaves as a wave, cannon of electrons behaves as a particle /sometimes/

complex adaptive systems   88
complex system: system with many interacting agents, can be as basic as a pile of sand
complex adaptive system: system in which agents can take in stimulus and respond
"emergent properties ... don't appear gradually" - I'm not sure that's true for all complex systems, because of things like neutron decay where the first small change has to occur before the big one ever does. I think this is clearer if you study non-adaptive systems before the properly adaptive ones

compound motion   89-91
motion vectors can be broken down   89
this is a cool one, because it shows how everyday movement may resemble quantum field dimensions. really things are connected, but sometimes it works out just fine to mathematically separate each aspect because every direction is a process

Compton effect   92
photon-electron interactions take energy and angle from incoming photons at once
an x-ray beam going through a crystal is a Feynman diagram

correspondence principle   98
quantum equations do properly predict larger scales, just a bit inefficiently versus coarse-grained classical equations
this principle is so damning for any argument we can't predict complex adaptive systems. atoms are complex systems. quarks are complex systems. nobody finds it impossible to predict hadrons.

open / closed universe   99-101
dark energy: material cause of expanding universe pushing against gravity 100
two thirds of the energy in the universe is dark energy
dark energy was thought to be described by the cosmological constant, but that is not clear any more
some hypothesize that dark energy can be properly termed a force - the quintessence hypothesis

curie point 106
temperature affects the magnetic fields of atoms

determinism   116
planets move Mercury; emergence is difficult

deterministic chaos   118

diffraction   122

dispersion   123


zero-point energy   403
a minimum energy makes the uncertainty principle not a problem. why?

triune brain   407
haeckel style concept that brain shape recapitulates phylogeny. interesting word usage - in another sense _don't_ we have at least three brains?

turing test; Chinese room   409

uniformitarianism; The present is key to the past   411
sure is confusing that geologists say this and astrophysicists say the laws of the universe had to develop, huh

vital force   415
in the 1800s, people thought there was a unique Element to living substances, as interesting as Water, Fire, Light, or Darkness.
well, sort of..... we call it carbon

Zeno's paradox   419
there is a transition from infinitesimal numbers to numbers we can measure where infinitesimals are discarded. calculus limits were required to comprehend numbers infinitely, but physical things aren't really infinite, important to remember

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