Barbara Piechocinska
Barbara Piechocinska | |
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| Known for | "Wholeness as a Conceptual Foundation of Physical Theories" |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Foundations of physics |
| Institutions | Uppsala University |
Barbara Piechocinska is a researcher in the foundations of physics known for her paper "Wholeness as a Conceptual Foundation of Physical Theories." She is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Writing from Uppsala University, Piechocinska published "Wholeness as a Conceptual Foundation of Physical Theories" in Physics Essays (vol. 17, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 505–517); a preprint is available on arXiv (physics/0409092). In it she proposes a description of physical reality in which wholeness, rather than separate parts, is taken as foundational. She suggests a mathematical framework based on elementary embeddings and the "Wholeness Axiom," arguing that features such as being more than the sum of its parts and giving rise to a self-similar, holographic order can be reflected mathematically. The paper draws on notions related to David Bohm's implicate order and lies in the heterodox foundations-of-physics literature rather than the mainstream.