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The Sum of the Parts - Paul Davies article
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Posted by: Jason Cawley
Paul Davies
The New Scientist
5 March 2005
"Take a bucketful of subatomic particles. Put them together one way, and you get a baby. Put them together another way and you'll get a rock. Put them together a third way and you'll get one of the most surprising materials in existence: a high-temperature superconductor. How can such radically different properties emerge from different combinations of the same basic matter?"
A provocative discussion of the ideas of weak and strong emergence.
For New Scientist subscribers, the article can be found here - http://www.newscientist.com/article...=mg18524891.000
Paul Davies' homepage can be found here -
http://aca.mq.edu.au/PaulDavies/pdavies.html
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