Physical versus Social Fear: A Fundamental Dichotomy

Computation: a Fundamental Physical View Computation: a Fundamental Physical View

A 0 3 3 C v 2 C v C O-Attempts to understand the fundamental physical limits of computation have been under way for over a quarter century. We discuss this field, with B e 3 3 3 S 3 S 0 emphasis on the central notion of reversible computation, and emphasis on the relationship to the ultimate nature of physical law. A brief discussion of the generation of information is included. In ordinary com...

Discrete and Continuous: A Fundamental Dichotomy in Mathematics

A Fundamental Dichotomy for definably Complete expansions of Ordered Fields

An expansion of a definably complete field either defines a discrete subring, or the image of every definable discrete set under every definable map is nowhere dense. As an application we show a definable version of Lebesgue’s differentiation theorem.

Continuum versus dichotomy in theories of schizophrenia.

There is a sharp difference of opinion in the psychiatric literature over whether schizophrenic disorders exist on a continuum with other mental disorders and normality, but this issue has in the past been overshadowed by another controversy—the role of genetic vs. environmental factors in the etiology of schizophrenia. This paper argues that the division of theories of schizophrenia into those...

The Fundamental Physical Constants

established in 1966 as an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council of Scientific Unions (now the International Council of Science). Three years later, CODATA created the task group on fundamental constants to periodically provide the scientific and technological communities with a self-consistent set of internationally recommended values for the basic constants and conversion fa...