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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN PHYSICS EMERGENCE IN CONDEN...

This 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 continuum may 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.

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