Editors: | Kongoli F, Gaines G, Georgiev S, Bhalekar A |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 320 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-42-3 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
A significant aspect of sustainable development requires an understanding of the spontaneous behaviour of natural systems, especially in terms of self-organization and self-assembly. If we understand how these processes occur in nature we can begin to replicate them with maximum efficiency and in the most sustainable way. My own work shows that, using evidence from mathematics, computational and systems theory, physics, chemistry, biology and ecology indicates that self-organization in Nature follows a route involving a dual-space nilpotent structure, which immediately connects any organized system with its environment in a completely definable way. The mathematics of this is exact and operates on every scale from the quantum level to galactic clusters, and involves both living and non-living structures. A significant development in this work is a connection to the isomathematics of R. M. Santilli, which, when applied to physics, is concerned with typically extended sources, for example involving media, etc., where conventional quantum mechanics and special relativity no longer hold, and where technological applications become important. The isonilpotent structures which emerge from this connection have many potential applications where self-organization is an important process. The paper will show how the abstract mathematical process operates, describe how it provides the natural explanation of self-organization at all scales, and supply examples of its application.