Digital Informatics and Isotopic Biology

Alexander Berezin is a Professor (Emeritus) of Engineering Physics at McMaster University. He is active in many areas of physics and several other disciplines, and is largely known as an interdisciplinary scientist. Some of his published work touches controversial, largely unexplored and emergent areas, such as possible physical foundations of homeopathy, physics of consciousness, simulated realities and parallel universes. He also has publications on arts, architecture, tourism and social issues related to science policy and education.

• PREFACEChapter 1 - INTRODUCTIONChapter 2 - ENERGY AND INFORMATION2-1 Relativity and Contextuality of Major Physical Categories2-3 Boltzmann-Shannon Informational Entropy2-3 Digital Strings and Normal Numbers2-4 Universal and “Eternal” Records or why Pi is not exactly 32-5 Jorge Luis Borges “Library of Babel”Chapter 3 - CHAOS AND SELF-ORGANIZATION IN RANDOM SYSTEMS3-1 Dichotomy of Order and Chaos3-2 Nature’s Quest for Patterns3-3 Pythagoras “Everything is a Number” and the Modern Physics3-4 Digital Pythagorism and Omega Number3-5 Universal Emergence and “Platonic Pressure Effect”3-6 Cantor, Goedel and “Ultimate Issues”3-7 It-From-Bit and Leibnitz Principle3-8 Mandelbrot Sets and the Infinite Intricacy of the Platonic World3-9 Symmetry Breaking and the Emergence of Order3-10 Electrostatic Ordering and Ionic Crystals3-11 Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory and Electrostatic Phase Transitions3-12 The Problem of “N Dictators”Chapter 4 - ISOTOPICITY IN PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING4-1 Stable and radioactive Isotopes4-2 Isotopicity Meme4-3 Milestones of Isotopes4-4 Isotopic Curiosity and Prime Numbers4-5 Isotopic Freedom and Many Facets of Isotopicity4-6 My “Newton Apple” of Isotopicity4-7 Isotopic Fiberoptics4-8 Isotopic Information Storage (Digital Isotopicity)4-9 Isotopic Superlattices4-10 Isotopic Quantum Wells4-11 Isotopic Tribology4-12 Isotopic Effects in Corrosion4-13 Isotopes in Quantum Computing4-14 Isotopic Random Number Generators4-15 Isotopic Randomness as Symmetry Breaking Factor4-16 Instability of Isotopically Mixed Systems4-17 Cosmic Scales of Nuclear Wave FunctionsChapter 5 - ISOTOPICITY IN BIOLOGY AND IN THE THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS5-1 Mechanistic and Holistic Approaches to Consciousness5-2 Observer Effect in Quantum Physics5-3 Holomovement of David Bohm and Universal Entanglement5-4 Biological Implications of Isotopic Diversity5-5 The Concept of Isotopic Biology5-6 Isotopic Biology and Subtle Genetic Messages5-7 Isotopicity in Nano and Biomedical Technology5-8 Unstable Isotopies and Biological Information5-9 Isotopicity in Consciousness Dynamics: Anderson Localization5-10 Isotopic Castling5-11 Neutron Tunneling and Quantum Consciousness5-12 Isotopicity and Gaia Concept5-13 Isotopicity and Personal Identity5-14 Isotopes: A “Secret Tool” of Nature’s Creativity?5-15 Is Nature “Isotopically Smart”?4-16 Isotopic Ordering in Liquids and “Soft Structures”4-17 Isotopic Neural NetworksChapter 6 - DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION IN OUR DIGITAL SOCIETY6-1 Blessings and Evils of Global Interconnectedness and Digitization6-2 Paths and Mazes of Science and Discovery6-3 Premature and Delayed Discoveries6-4 Mobius Strip and Recycling Bins6-5 More Delayed Discoveries6-6 Big Science and Peer Review6-7 Orthodoxies and Heresies6-8 Crowd Mentality and Interdiscipinary Paradox6-9 Going “around” the System: Isotopicity as an Example6-10 Random Creativity and Laputa Machines6-11 Living in Matrix – Physics Reloaded7 - CONCLUSION: MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG READER