Laws of Nature and Time Symmetry Breaking

Antoniou, Ioannis

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb10402.x

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“…Despite the differences, all the approaches can be loosely grouped into two broad categories: theoretic (mechanistic, deterministic, physically based, “hard”) and empirical (statistical, functional, “soft”) approaches. In very general terms, all natural phenomena, including natural hazards, can be classified based on their level of predictability (Prigogine and Stengers 1979 ; Prigogine 1996 ; Taleb 2007 ; Stein and Stein 2014 ). The motion of a bullet, pendulum, or planet exhibits comparatively little uncertainty, and can be predicted accurately in space and time using models expressed by simple mathematical equations ( Figure 2 ).…”

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Forecasting natural hazards, performance of scientists, ethics, and the need for transparency

Guzzetti

2015

Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry

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Landslides are one of several natural hazards. As other natural hazards, landslides are difficult to predict, and their forecasts are uncertain. The uncertainty depends on the poor understanding of the phenomena that control the slope failures, and on the inherent complexity and chaotic nature of the landslides. This is similar to other natural hazards, including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and droughts. Due to the severe impact of landslides on the population, the environment, and the economy, forecasting landslides is of scientific interest and of societal relevance, and scientists attempting to forecast landslides face known and new problems intrinsic to the multifaceted interactions between science, decision-making, and the society. The problems include deciding on the authority and reliability of individual scientists and groups of scientists, and evaluating the performances of individual scientists, research teams, and their institutions. Related problems lay in the increasing subordination of research scientists to politics and decision-makers, and in the conceptual and operational models currently used to organize and pay for research, based on apparently objective criteria and metrics, considering science as any other human endeavor, and favoring science that produces results of direct and immediate application. The paper argues that the consequences of these problems have not been considered fully.

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Section: Landslides and Their Predictionmentioning

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Forecasting natural hazards, performance of scientists, ethics, and the need for transparency

Guzzetti

2015

Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry

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“…Organization complexity describes the innumerable possible combinations of individuals, beliefs, values, circumstances, responses, and outcomes that interact and feed-back into the dynamic NH environment. Self-organization (Prigogine, 1997) occurs as individuals or subsystems mutually change their behaviors based on evolving conditions regardless of central controlling forces (Cilliers, 1998; Plowman et al, 2007). The process of self-organization, will influence a NH’s capability because self-organization arises from relationships and interactions among the people in the system—the same dynamics that establish an organization’s capabilities (Schreyögg & Kliesch-Eberl, 2007).…”

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2012

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Director of nursing turnover is linked to staff turnover and poor quality of care in nursing homes; however the mechanisms of these relationships are unknown. Using a complexity science framework, we examined how nurse management turnover impacts system capacity to produce high quality care. This study is a longitudinal case analysis of a nursing home (n = 97 staff) with 400% director of nursing turnover during the study time period. Data included 100 interviews, observations and documents collected over 9 months and were analyzed using immersion and content analysis. Turnover events at all staff levels were nonlinear, socially mediated and contributed to dramatic care deficits. Federal mandated, quality assurance mechanisms failed to ensure resident safety. High multilevel turnover should be elevated to a sentinel event for regulators. Suggestions to magnify positive emergence in extreme conditions and to improve quality are provided.

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“…A foundational goal of science is to identify and understand the physical laws that govern the visible universe [ 775 , 776 ]. The demonstration of new laws of nature is thus an important scientific achievement.…”

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Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life

Andrulis

2011

Life

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Life is an inordinately complex unsolved puzzle. Despite significant theoretical progress, experimental anomalies, paradoxes, and enigmas have revealed paradigmatic limitations. Thus, the advancement of scientific understanding requires new models that resolve fundamental problems. Here, I present a theoretical framework that economically fits evidence accumulated from examinations of life. This theory is based upon a straightforward and non-mathematical core model and proposes unique yet empirically consistent explanations for major phenomena including, but not limited to, quantum gravity, phase transitions of water, why living systems are predominantly CHNOPS (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur), homochirality of sugars and amino acids, homeoviscous adaptation, triplet code, and DNA mutations. The theoretical framework unifies the macrocosmic and microcosmic realms, validates predicted laws of nature, and solves the puzzle of the origin and evolution of cellular life in the universe.

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Laws of Nature and Time Symmetry Breaking

Cited by 63 publications

References 18 publications

Forecasting natural hazards, performance of scientists, ethics, and the need for transparency

Forecasting natural hazards, performance of scientists, ethics, and the need for transparency

Top Nurse-Management Staffing Collapse and Care Quality in Nursing Homes

Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life

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