Molecular Collision Theory

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High-level treatment introduces theory required for interpretation of an increasingly sophisticated range of molecular scattering experiments. Topics include classical scattering by a central force, quantum scattering by a central force, elastic scattering phase shifts, semi-classical elastic scattering, more. Treatment is essentially analytical. Appendixes. References. 1974 edition.

Relativistic Heavy-Particle Collision Theory (Physics of Atoms and Molecules)

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Relativistic Heavy-Particle Collision Theory (Physics of Atoms and Molecules)
Derrick S.F. Crothers
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If a heavy particle ion (atom, molecule, muon) collides with another in the gas phase at speeds approaching the speed of light, the time-dependent Dirac equation equation must be used for its description, including quantum electro-dynamic, special relativity and magnetic coupling effects.
In this book we study one electron in the variety of rearrangement collisions: radiative and non-radiative capture, ionization, capture by pair (one electron, one positron) production and antihydrogen production. Our relativistic continuum distorted-wave theory accounts extremely well for the simultaneous behaviour of the electron with respect to the nuclear charges of the projectile and the target.
This is the first book developed in this subject. Containing many diagrams and tables, and fully referenced, it goes beyond chapters in previous books. The relativistic continuum distorted-wave theory developed by the authors group, is shown to be fully Hermitean. Detailed mathematics are provided in nine appendices.

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Quantum Collision Theory
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During the last two decades the theory of ion-atom collisons, and particularly of charge-exchange reactions has advanced rapidly to the point where existing texts are no longer suitable as an introduction to the subject. This book aims to remedy the situation by providing an account of modern theoretical methods used to study the interaction of positive ions with atoms (or ions), concentrating particularly on charge exchange reactions. These reactions cannot be studied in isolation, and it is necessary to consider, to some extent, the whole range of ion-atom collisions leading to elastic scattering, excitation, and ionization. The material is presented at a level suitable for beginning research students and is self-contained, but assumes a knowledge of undergraduate quantum mechanics and atomic physics. It should also be useful for experimentalists who wish to assess the status of theoretical treatments of those collision processes in which they are interested.

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When did big-picture optimism become cool again? While not blind to potential problems and glitches, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang to the 21st Century confidently asserts that our networked culture is not only inevitable but essential for our species' survival and eventual migration into space. Author Howard Bloom, believed by many to be R. Buckminster Fuller's intellectual heir, takes the reader on a dizzying tour of the universe, from its original subatomic particle network to the unimaginable data-processing power of intergalactic communication. His writing is smart and snappy, moving with equal poise through depictions of frenzied bacteria passing along information packets in the form of DNA and nomadic African tribespeople putting their heads together to find water for the next year.

The reader is swept up in Bloom's vision of the power of mass minds and, before long, can't help seeing the similarities between ecosystems, street gangs, and the Internet. Were Bloom not so learned and well-respected--more than a third of his book is devoted to notes and references, and luminaries from Lynn Margulis to Richard Metzger have lined up behind him--it would be tempting to dismiss him as a crank. His enthusiasm, the grand scale of his thinking, and his transcendence of traditional academic disciplines can be daunting, but the new outlook yielded to the persistent is simultaneously exciting and humbling. Bloom takes the old-school, sci-fi dystopian vision of group thinking and turns it around--Global Brain predicts that our future's going to be less like the Borg and more like a great party. --Rob Lightner

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"As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a "complex adaptive system," a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.
Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a "grand vision," says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.

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Not worth the money, or the time to read it........2007-01-28

I bought and read this book to keep a commitment to a friend. That's the only reason I didn't trash it after the first couple of chapters.
The author appears to have encountered a great many ideas without ever understanding any one of them. A careful reading will reveal that the author's objective is to massage the egos of the rich and famous in order to keep his (bragged about) access to their company. It will also weary your brain with passionately argued self-serving nonsense.
I suggest you don't bother.

Seeing reality despite Howard's hallucination.......2006-12-18

I am a medical professional who thinks of hallucinations as breaks from reality. I am skimming Howard's book and so far it looks like New Age mysticism. My memory recalls a line from Frank Zappa, " Who('re) you jiving with that cosmic debris".

I felt compelled to give this 1 star because there was no zero. Apparently I have'nt been let into Howard's "reality as a shared hallucination". You see, with a scientific background, I notice a great deal of confabulation in Howard's work.

I am an objectivist (physical reality is what it is whether I believe it or not). I do believe we coevolve within our environment. Interaction is part of the nature of reality and that complexity and emergence are just beginning to be understood.

On the other hand, scientists (we are all to varying degrees keen observers and inductionists) (Klein refers to our thinking as Recognition Primed Decision Making referential to stored memories) theorize about (physical) reality through the scientific use of observation and verification/falsification by experimentation, leading to further hypothesizing and model building and testing by further mathematical calculation (sometimes) and further experimentation. Not to mention the occasional seridipitous discovery. Consider that conceptualization the next time you believe (in defiance of the Laws of physics) that you can sqeeze between those "atoms" that make up a brick wall. I am decidedly not a Husserlian phenomenologist, nor am I a Logical Positivist subjectivist.

So far, I am continuing to read the Global Brain while making margin notes. I see a muddling of definitions ie. the difference between objective reality and subjective perception. Or the confused definition of reality and memory when Howard should be speaking of the remembered present as defined by Edelman in describing consciousness. The map is not the territory as Bateson would say.

There may be valuable information in this book but so far it seems a contrivance of conflated metaphors.

But I suppose Howard Bloom might say I have missed "his" point. To which I might reply "Get real, Howard". Or is it that you will be my guru guide through this reality you call a hallucination.

Prepare for provoking thought.......2006-03-23

I love the way that Howard Bloom thinks, it is always illuminating and never elitist. Reading his books always reminds me of reading something written by Carl Sagan. They both have a playful, quick, and insightful way of looking at the world and they both ask questions that make you think for yourself. Do not take this book as scientific proof of group selection (as nothing is EVER proven) but instead prepare to gain new insights into everything related to how our world works.

Howard's original book The Lucifer principle still stands on my list of things that everyone could read to better themselves.

The Art of War
Lucifer Principle
The Naked Capitalist

This book will most likely be added to this list once I give it another read. One thing I will say, however, is that Mr. Bloom's writing has improved in both it's impact and delivery.

Roger Bishop Jones.......2006-03-14

This book changed the way I think about the world and the people in it. Its one of my "decade books" (the best book I read in a decade) which I first read online at telepolis about ten years ago.

I don't buy the headline thesis (his conception of "global brain") but the wealth of information which he supplies in support of that thesis transformed my perception of life on our planet.
Particularly in relation to the pervasiveness and significance of social behaviour not only in humans and higher mammal's but at all levels of life right down to viruses, and the way this interacts with the evolution of life on earth.

I only have questions .......2006-01-18

I am not sure I get this book very well. Perhaps that is because the very notion of a 'collective mind'or 'global brain' is something I find difficult to understand. I have always believed that individuals have minds(if that is the proper way to say it) and they alone think and plan and coordinate action. It is difficult for me to understand the notion of a 'collective mind' without understanding where its center is- center for self- consciousness and reflection.
With that reservation I begin by citing 'Cyberplay's description of this book.

"Global Brain presents evidence that the shared intelligence of humankind is part of a larger planetary mind, one that combines the learning of microbes, waterfowl, predatory cats, idealists, militants, religionists, and scientists. The book predicts that the great world war of the 21st century will take place between the collective intelligence of humanity and that of a world wide web 96 trillion generations old and billions of years wise-the global internet between microbial societies. Finally, Global Brain anticipates some of the creative paths this planet's team of battlers and borrowers may take during the next one-hundred and fifty years."

Again I am not sure I understand this. Bloom has categories for different kinds of operatives within the global -brain. He places special value on those capable of thinking and acting in ways outside the consensus. But so far as I can understand it he differentiates between the collective brain of the human, and other forms of collective brain, such as that of those he considers our great rivals, bacteria. Does this mean that one part of the overall global brain( Let us say the 'human part') is striving to coopt the whole of reality?

I also wonder if Bloom is talking about some vast cosmic evolutionary process from the Big Bang on, what the ultimate goal of this is? Is it one vast system under one vast self -reflexive consciousness?

I wonder too what connection these vast networks have to do with our own individual lives, and whether in terms of valuation they can ever be equal to them. We love and care for individuals more than we can ever love and care (At least most of us) for the whole system of Brain or Mind or Collective Consciousness.

I too wonder what all this has to do with traditional Western religious conceptions of a Creator God, Who is also Providence leading and ruling all to its ideal end.

This book has the great value of stimulating us to ask ultimate questions, perhaps even provides new formulations in which ultimate questions are asked in ways not asked before.

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