Soft Order in Physical SystemsR. Bruinsma, Y. Rabin A humoristic view of the physics of soft matter, which nevertheless has a ring of truth to it, is that it is an ill-defined subject which deals with ill-condensed matter by ill-defined methods. Although, since the Nobel prize was awarded to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, this subject can be no longer shrugged-away as "sludge physics" by the physics community, it is still not viewed universally as "main stream" physics. While, at first glance, this may be considered as another example of inertia, a case of the "establishment" against the "newcomer", the roots of this prejudice are much deeper and can be traced back to Roger Bacon's conception about the objectivity of science. All of us would agree with the weaker form of this idea which simply says that the final results of our work should be phrased in an observer-independent way and be communicable to anybody who made the effort to learn this language. There exists, however, a stronger form of this idea according to which the above criteria of "objectivity" and "communicability" apply also to the process of scientific inquiry. The fact that major progress in the physics of soft matter was made in apparent violation of this approach, by applying intuition to problems which appeared to defy rigorous analysis, may explain why many physicists feel somewhat ill-at-ease with this subject. |
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... GEOMETRIC METHODS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS : Physics and Geometry edited by Ling - Lie Chau and Werner Nahm INFORMATION DYNAMICS edited by Harald Atmanspacher and Herbert Scheingraber SELF - ORGANIZATION , EMERGING PROPERTIES , AND ...
... GEOMETRIC METHODS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS : Physics and Geometry edited by Ling - Lie Chau and Werner Nahm INFORMATION DYNAMICS edited by Harald Atmanspacher and Herbert Scheingraber SELF - ORGANIZATION , EMERGING PROPERTIES , AND ...
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... geometry better that it is known today , and G. Friedel immediately concluded from these observations that the system was indeed lamellar . For the sake of understanding what is important in this discovery , let us Soft Order in ...
... geometry better that it is known today , and G. Friedel immediately concluded from these observations that the system was indeed lamellar . For the sake of understanding what is important in this discovery , let us Soft Order in ...
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... geometry of Focal Conic Domains ( FCD's ) . The second one is devoted to an analytical description of the sheets which constitute the domains . This is the starting point of the calculation of the energy of different types of FCD's ...
... geometry of Focal Conic Domains ( FCD's ) . The second one is devoted to an analytical description of the sheets which constitute the domains . This is the starting point of the calculation of the energy of different types of FCD's ...
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... geometry of parallel surfaces ( it is in fact not the generic solution ) , but the most generally ( although not unique ) solution chosen by the smectic phases . The reason for the prevalence of this geometry will appear later , when we ...
... geometry of parallel surfaces ( it is in fact not the generic solution ) , but the most generally ( although not unique ) solution chosen by the smectic phases . The reason for the prevalence of this geometry will appear later , when we ...
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... geometry of parallel surfaces and the geometry of wave fronts when light propagates in a medium of constant index of refraction ; the normals to the layers ( the congruence M'M " ) are the analogs of the light rays , and the two loci of ...
... geometry of parallel surfaces and the geometry of wave fronts when light propagates in a medium of constant index of refraction ; the normals to the layers ( the congruence M'M " ) are the analogs of the light rays , and the two loci of ...
Contents
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An Introduction | 33 |
The Adhesion Between Elastomers | 57 |
Dynamics of Late Stage Phase Separation in Polymer Blends | 73 |
RESEARCH PAPERS | 99 |
The Revealing of Heterogeneities by Free Linear Chains in a Network | 113 |
NonDebye Screening in Polyelectrolyte Solutions | 117 |
Entropy of Knots and Statistics of Entangled Random Walks | 125 |
Soft Atomic Potentials and LowFrequency Raman Scattering in Glasses | 151 |
Percolation Diffusion and Fractons | 159 |
Diffusion Reaction A+B C with A and B InitiallySeparated | 167 |
Fractons in Computer and Laboratory Experiments | 185 |
Permeability of a Soap Film | 195 |
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY | 203 |
NeoDarwinian Processes in the Evolution of Science and | 223 |
Index | 229 |
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