Decay and Afterlife

Decay and Afterlife

Author: Aleksandra Prica

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 022681159X

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Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth, highlighting their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings, she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history, from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising resemblances and resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.


Asymptotic Time Decay In Quantum Physics

Asymptotic Time Decay In Quantum Physics

Author: Domingos H U Marchetti

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012-11-16

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9814434566

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Time decays form the basis of a multitude of important and interesting phenomena in quantum physics that range from spectral properties, resonances, return and approach to equilibrium, to quantum mixing, dynamical stability properties and irreversibility and the “arrow of time”.This monograph is devoted to a clear and precise, yet pedagogical account of the associated concepts and methods./a


Decay of Motion

Decay of Motion

Author: Bernd Schmeikal

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781631178092

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This book investigates a discrete theory beyond space and time of QCD-entanglement that creates space-time. Quantum entanglement is known as the most striking property of electrodynamics. It provides both a foundation for quantum information technology and a challenge for theoretical physics. Unfortunately, the equations of motion for entangled systems, quantum jumps and similar phenomena are always conceived as models in space-time. Regardless, whether we consider a quantified local oscillator, a heterodyne detection model, a Bell inequality, a CHSH-inequality, an objective pure state system, or a non-linear steering inequality, it is always formulated in space-time, using the x, σx and so on. This is a doubtable method, since proceeding in this way, we are constructing space-time models of those events that bring about this very space-time, the frames', wherein they are supposed to move. Those who carry out calculations in EPR quantum-steering experiments are acquainted with the Kochen-Specker theorem. But they are still deriving the estimates for expectation values of densities and inequalities from the implicit assumption of states in Hilbert-space. Though some of us have co-operatively managed to close all the major loopholes, the locality loophole, the freedom-of-choice loophole and the detection loophole, none of us has as yet realised that a closure of the locality-loophole in strong qcd-interaction is entirely impossible. A space-like separation of hadronic events cannot be achieved. The reason for our weak models is in the lack of a suitable exact theory of interaction. Such a theory is complete and phenomenologically consistent to some extent. Theoretically, both the iterant algebra of polarised entangled strings as well as the derived geometric algebra of the known space-time is incompatible with complete space-like separation. The loophole opening up on this basis is as large and as old as that universe we pretend to know.


Statistical Models for Nuclear Decay

Statistical Models for Nuclear Decay

Author: A.J Cole

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1420033476

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Statistical Models for Nuclear Decay: From Evaporation to Vaporization describes statistical models that are applied to the decay of atomic nuclei, emphasizing highly excited nuclei usually produced using heavy ion collisions. The first two chapters present essential introductions to statistical mechanics and nuclear physics, followed by a descript


Radiative Decay Engineering

Radiative Decay Engineering

Author: Chris D. Geddes

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-11

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0387276173

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During recent years our enthusiasm for this field has continually increased. This book presents expert contributions describing the fundamental principles for the widespread use of radiative decay engineering in the biological sciences and nanotechnology.


The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants

The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants

Author: Carlos Martins

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9401732728

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The workshop on The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants, which was part of JENAM 2002, was held at the Physics Department of the University of Porto (FCUP) from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2002. It was regularly attended by about 110 participants, of which 65 were officially registered in the VFC workshop, while the others came from the rest of the JENAM workshops. There were also a few science correspondents from the national and international press. During the 3 days of the scientific programme, 8 Invited Reviews and 30 Oral Communications were presented. The speakers came from 11 different European countries, and also from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Japan and the U.S.A. There were also speakers from six Portuguese research institutions, and nine of the speak ers were Ph.D. students. The contributions are presented in these proceedings in chronological order. The workshop brought together string theorists, particle physicists, theoretical and observational cosmologists, relativists and observational astrophysicists. It was generally agreed that this inter-disciplinarity was the greatest strength of the work shop, since it provided people coming into this very recent topic from the various different backgrounds with an opportunity to understand each other's language and thereby gain a more solid understanding of the overall picture.


Smoothing and Decay Estimates for Nonlinear Diffusion Equations

Smoothing and Decay Estimates for Nonlinear Diffusion Equations

Author: Juan Luis Vázquez

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2006-08-03

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0191525251

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This text is concerned with the quantitative aspects of the theory of nonlinear diffusion equations; equations which can be seen as nonlinear variations of the classical heat equation. They appear as mathematical models in different branches of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering, and are also relevant in differential geometry and relativistic physics. Much of the modern theory of such equations is based on estimates and functional analysis. Concentrating on a class of equations with nonlinearities of power type that lead to degenerate or singular parabolicity ("equations of porous medium type"), the aim of this text is to obtain sharp a priori estimates and decay rates for general classes of solutions in terms of estimates of particular problems. These estimates are the building blocks in understanding the qualitative theory, and the decay rates pave the way to the fine study of asymptotics. Many technically relevant questions are presented and analyzed in detail. A systematic picture of the most relevant phenomena is obtained for the equations under study, including time decay, smoothing, extinction in finite time, and delayed regularity.