Author : Laurent Nottale
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814520217
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Fractal Space-time And Microphysics: Towards A Theory Of Scale Relativity by : Laurent Nottale
Download or read book Fractal Space-time And Microphysics: Towards A Theory Of Scale Relativity written by Laurent Nottale and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-04-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed account of a new approach to microphysics based on two leading ideas: (i) the explicit dependence of physical laws on scale encountered in quantum physics, is the manifestation of a fundamental principle of nature, scale relativity. This generalizes Einstein's principle of (motion) relativity to scale transformations; (ii) the mathematical achievement of this principle needs the introduction of a nondifferentiable space-time varying with resolution, i.e. characterized by its fractal properties.The author discusses in detail reactualization of the principle of relativity and its application to scale transformations, physical laws which are explicitly scale dependent, and fractals as a new geometric description of space-time.