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Showing posts with label Philip Ball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Ball. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Information theoretic measures for emergence and causality

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The relationship between emergence and causation is contentious, with a long history. Most discussions are qualitative. Presented with a new...
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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Biology is about emergence in subtle ways

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Biology is a field that is all about emergence. It exhibits a hierarchy of structures from DNA to proteins to cells to organs to organisms. ...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Clarity about the relationship of emergence, complexity, predictability, and universality

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Emergence means different things to different people. Except, that practically everyone likes it! Or at least, likes using the word. Terms a...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The challenge of writing books on water

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Biman Bagchi has just published a new book, Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function  Cambrid...
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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Why does liquid water have a relatively high boiling point?

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The graph below shows the boiling points of different molecular liquids of the chemical composition HnX. Note that at room temperature all ...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Quantum biology? Tunneling in enzymes

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Over the past two decades the possibility of quantum tunneling of protons in enzymes has attracted considerable attention. (See for example ...
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