phase-space

Whatever field-like (and time-like, and space-like) influences there are operating consciousness, it seems quite clear to me that it has to function via physical mechanism at the crossover phase-space.

Coordinated Evolution 2007

Malament 1982 had objected that the obstacles to the nominalization of phase-space theories in Hamiltonian mechanics seemed insuperable.

Explanation in Mathematics Mancosu, Paolo 2008

Lyon and Colyvan (2007) go beyond Malament's claim by arguing that even if a nominalistic reconstruction of phase-space theories were available, the nominalist would still have to show that such reconstruction can yield the explanations yielded by the non-nominalistic version (s).

Explanation in Mathematics Mancosu, Paolo 2008

Their claim is that the phase-space analysis of the system provides explanations that cannot be provided by any nominalist reconstruction.

Explanation in Mathematics Mancosu, Paolo 2008

In the jargon of chaos-theory: although trajectories through a region of a dynamical phase-space may exhibit exponential sensitivity to initial perturbations and thus potentially exhibit no meaningful central tendency, their divergence may still have bounded extent.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

Per Shang-Keng Ma, an entropy can be defined as the logarithm of the phase-space volume explored by the system over a given timescale; the states relevant for thermodynamics (mumble mumble microcanonical mumble mumble) would be the decategorification of the states used at the statistical-mechanical level.

Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007

Or is expressed in terms of the volume in phase-space of what the observer sees as a single macrostate.

Against Bounces Sean 2007

Folks like me believe the upturn is mainly due to improved detection, especially as the 1970s generation of satellites were put into use and now phase-space analysis is put to use in analyzing cyclones outside the tropical Atlantic.

Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

It is perhaps helpful, in trying to understand the status in Bohmian mechanics of the quantum equilibrium distribution, to think of quantum equilibrium, ρ = | ψ | 2 as roughly analogous to (classical) thermodynamic equilibrium, ρ = exp (- H/kT)/Z, the probability distribution of the phase-space point of a system in equilibrium at temperature T. (Z is a normalization constant called the partition function and k is Boltzmann's constant.)

Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006

Malcolm's models are all phase-space shapes on a computer screen.

Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991