[PLUG-TALK] Fwd: Gurevitch Lecture June 1 @515pm

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Sun Jun 3 01:11:23 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:14:46AM -0700, Bill Barry wrote:
>
>> *The maggot in the apple: peaceful coexistence of incompatible theories
>> Sir Michael Berry, Physics Department, Bristol University*
>
> Thanks for the tip, Bill, that lecture was fascinating!
>
> BTW, in an age of behind-paywall journals, almost everything
> Sir Michael has written (400+ books and papers) is available
> for free download from his publications page:
>
>   http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/people/berry_mv/publications.html
>
> Keith

Yes, that was an interesting talk. You would think that you because
you have two physical descriptions like quantum mechanics and
classical mechanics that the borderland between the two would be well
described by one or the other of these two theories, but he showed
that there is a lot off interesting physics in those borderland
regions.

Thanks for the  URL, he gave a few references in the talk, one of them
was a Physics Today article from that list of  publications

http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/people/berry_mv/the_papers/Berry341.pdf

Another one  was
 Robert Batterman,­ The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in
Explanation,  Reduction, and Emergence, Oxford University Press (New
York),  paperback edition, 2007.


Bill


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