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Download or read book On the Emergence Theme of Physics written by Robert Carroll and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book surveys mathematical relations between classical and quantum mechanics, gravity, time and thermodynamics from various points of view and many sources (with appropriate attribution). The emergence theme is developed with an emphasis on the meaning via mathematics. A background theme of Bohemian mechanics and connections to the quantum equivalence principle of Matone et al. is also developed in great detail. Some original work relating the quantum potential and Ricci flow is also included.