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It is not uncommon for the Principle of Complementarity to be
invoked in either Science or Philosophy, viz. the ancient oriental
philosophy of Yin and Yang whose symbolic representation is
portrayed on the cover of the book. Or Niels Bohr's use of it as
the basis for the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics. This book arose as an outgrowth of the author's previous
book entitled 'Knots, Braids and Moebius Strips,' published by
World Scientific in 2015, wherein the Principle itself was
discovered to be expressible as a simple 2x2 matrix that summarizes
the algebraic essence of both the well-known Microbiology of DNA
and the author's version of the elementary particles of physics. At
that point, the possibility of an even wider utilization of that
expression of Complementarity arose.The current book, features
Complementarity, in which the matrix algebra is extended to
characterize not only DNA itself but the well-known process of its
replication, a most gratifying outcome. The book then goes on to
explore Complementarity, with and without its matrix expression, as
it occurs, not only in much of physics but in its extension to
cosmology as well.
Elementary particles in this book exist as Solitons in-and-of the
fabric of spacetime itself. As such they are characterized by their
geometry, that is their topology and configuration which lead
directly to their physical attributes and behavior as well as to a
simplification and reduction of assumptions and the importation of
parameter values. The emphasis of the book is thus on that
geometry, the algebraic geometry associated with taxonomical issues
and the differential geometry that determines the physics as well
as on simplifying the results. In itself, however, the process of
assembling and developing what eventually went into the book has
been a singularly rewarding journey. Along the way some fascinating
insights and connections to known physical attributes and theories
emerge, some predictable but others unbidden and even
unanticipated. The book is intended to summarize that journey in a
way that, readers with a range of backgrounds will find interesting
and provocative. Connections to other physical theories and
subjects are also discussed. A most gratifying development is the
emergence of a unifying principle underlying the epistemological
structure of not only the elementary particles but of such diverse
fields as Radar, Quantum mechanics, Biology, Cosmology and the
Philosophy of science.
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