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Emerging Physics a Fresh Approach to Viewing the Complexity of the Universe GETTY IMAGES Emerging physics A fresh approach to viewing the complexity of the Universe. A Different Universe: Reinventing (an analogy that Robert Laughlin draws from with those of life,the biomolecules,for which Physics from the Bottom Down Christina Rossetti’s poem Who Has Seen the he has considerable admiration.Then we hear by Robert Laughlin Wind?). Our identity and perceptions are his own ideas on biology, which will not be Basic Books: 2005. 304 pp. $26, £19.99 all the collective behaviour of ‘ghosts’, who to everyone’s taste but are certainly thought- Philip Anderson borrow their reality from each other. provoking. Finally, his view of complexity Laughlin gives the reader a quick tour science surprised and pleased me with its I should make my interests clear right at the through much of physics (without a single relative benevolence. start. For many years I have thought that a equation). There is a slight emphasis on the Despite the above fulsome praise, this is book such as this should be written, and quantum theory of condensed matter, in so not by any means a perfect book, even for its have been urged to write it myself. I didn’t far as it explains such things as computers purpose.Laughlin is not reliably careful with do so, and couldn’t possibly have written (with a sceptical side glance at quantum facts, whether scientific or historical. For one as suited as this is for its target audience. computation), the properties of ordinary example, it has rhetorical value to give his A Different Universe is a book about what metals, and the like. There is an enlightening great hero (and winner of two Nobel prizes) physics really is; it is not only unique, it is discussion of the special quantum phenom- John Bardeen mythic status, and to demon- an almost indispensable counterbalance to ena, the Hall and Josephson effects, which ize the “engineer”William Shockley, but this the recent proliferation of books by Brian through the ‘protection’ of collective behav- is incorrect.Shockley was verifiably contrary Greene, Stephen Hawking and their fellows, iour allow the measurement of Planck’s and sometimes mean, but he was also a who promulgate the idea that physics is a constant and electric charge with enormous great physicist. It was Shockley, rather than science predominantly of deep, quasi-theo- accuracy. The term ‘protection’ was coined Bardeen, who was responsible for creating logical speculations about the ultimate by Laughlin and David Pines to express the the great research centre at Bell Labs with nature of things. The enterprise of writing fact that precise behaviours of large objects James Fisk and Mervin Kelly. He also hired this book has my strong endorsement, then, can result from, and even benefit from, dis- Bardeen,as well as many of the other stars who and any disagreements or criticisms should orderly behaviour at the atomic level. Some graced the place, such as Charles H. Townes, be read in that light. of this will be hard for the layman to follow, Conyers Herring and Bernd Matthias. The central theme of the book is the tri- but at almost no point is it out of his reach. Bardeen was human, and was wrong as umph of emergence over reductionism: that The pedagogy is leavened by anecdotes, often as he was right. It would have been large objects such as ourselves are the product occasional eloquence, and characteristically instructive to point out that he published of principles of organization and of collec- pungent diction (Laughlin once interrupted two mistaken theories of superconductivity tive behaviour that cannot in any meaning- a scientific talk with “Liar,liar,pants on fire!”). 15 and 7 years before he got the right one. ful sense be reduced to the behaviour of our There are idiosyncratic views of a wide Laughlin’s history and emphases are too elementary constituents. Large objects are variety of scientific topics. Laughlin reveals much those of his generation. often more constrained by those principles his view of nanotechnology with a chapter Laughlin makes too much of the role than by what the principles act upon. The entitled “Carnival of the baubles”(a view with of the renormalization group — a way of underlying laws of physics have no sense which one can concur). He gives us some averaging out and getting ‘universal’proper- of time, give us no clue either to measuring inside information on the Star Wars defence ties at the macroscopic level from the messy or locating ourselves in space, and provide project and its notoriously fraudulent X-ray microscopic details — and other protection no clue to identity — we are all made up of laser weapon. He continues, comparing un- principles, as opposed to mechanism, in nothing but waves in a nonexistent medium favourably the ‘nanobaubles’ of technology determining the properties of things. Was it NATURE | VOL 434 | 7 APRIL 2005 | www.nature.com/nature 701 © 2005 Nature Publishing Group books and arts Pierre Weiss, with his mysterious molecular superficially familiar from other popular field and Weiss magnetons, who explained accounts, but Anderson’s synthesis provides ferromagnetism? Or was it, as I believe, Don’t talk to illuminating comparisons with the infinitely Werner Heisenberg, with quantum theory? more sophisticated resources of human lan- Laughlin misleadingly accuses two unnamed the animals guage, whether spoken or signed. There are physicists of predicting that superconductors Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals undeniable parallels between humans and be limited to below 30 K (the actual figure and the Uniqueness of Human other animals,but the differences are equally was 40 K), when what they said applied spe- Language striking and confirm the view that our lan- cifically to a particular mechanism for which by Stephen R. Anderson guage is qualitatively different from theirs. it is true. Yale University Press: 2004. 368 pp. Bees famously indicate the direction,dis- In my experience, which incidentally is $35, £22.50 tance and quality of sources of pollen to their greater than Laughlin’s, underlying causes Neil Smith fellow workers by means of a ‘waggle dance’, often enlighten our conceptual thinking as which is often taken to show that they have much as precise numbers do, something that Doctor Dolittle was the hero of a series of a ‘cognitive map’ of the local terrain. In a Laughlin seems to deny. After condemning children’s books written by Hugh Lofting meticulous dissection of the properties of astroparticle types for overemphasizing deep (1886–1947). The doctor’s ability to talk to this dance,Anderson undermines this claim, thoughts and broad vistas, he seems to reveal every animal in its own language had a showing that the bees’perception of distance a certain measure of ‘particle envy’ and dis- seductive appeal that finds current expres- is largely a function of differences in their taste for the messy, quarrelsome but absorb- sion in the widespread belief that the com- visual experience.When bees are made to fly ing ways of doing the sciences in the real munication systems of animals, from bees through tunnels with visual patterns on the world. What made Bardeen great, as indeed to bonobos, are essentially similar to human walls, the distance they indicate corresponds he was,was his stubbornness and experimen- language. So we should be able to learn to the complexity of the pattern to which tal taste,and Laughlin dismisses these values. their languages or, just as good, they could they have been exposed. The dance, then, Those who devour the work of Greene, learn ours. Stephen Anderson pours cold reflects the bees’subjective experience,rather or decorate their coffee table with Hawking, water on this belief, arguing convincingly than a map of the external world. will find this book a useful antidote.It should that it is a delusion. We are evolutionarily rather remote from spike the interest of those who read the He provides a masterly overview of what bees; closer parallels to human language and physics popularizers, although in its person- is currently known about the communica- how we learn it can be found in birds. Cur- alized coverage and opinionated style it is sui tive abilities of a wide range of creatures: rent views of first-language acquisition in generis.My message is this:buy the book. ■ the dance of honeybees, the communicative children treat it as a process of selection, Philip Anderson is in the Condensed Matter croaking of frogs, the warning cries of mon- rather than instruction. Humans are born Physics Group, Department of Physics, Princeton keys, and the remarkable cognitive abilities with a set of principles known as ‘universal University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. of bonobos and parrots. Much of this is grammar’ that define the notion of possible Exhibition Hirst’s hobbit The maxim that the best science possesses an artistic grace has probably never been applied to the down-and-dirty world of palaeontology. First there’s all the digging, and then there’s the arguing over how the fragmentary findings should be interpreted and slotted into the big GALLERY AMIEN HIRST/GAGOSIAN D picture. But a new painting by Damien Hirst, A New and Diminutive Species of Human Being Has Been Discovered, brings the face of Homo floresiensis (the ‘hobbit’) — one of palaeontology’s most iconic recent images — to the gallery. Photorealism — the painstakingly faithful reproduction of photographic images on canvas — is a surprising new direction for Hirst, arguably the doyen of the laddish Britart scene of the 1990s. Better known for pickling animals inside glass boxes, he has often engaged with science before. One of his trademark ‘dot paintings’ travelled to Mars aboard the ill-fated Beagle 2 lander and, given a smoother landing, would have been used to calibrate the craft’s onboard cameras.
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