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- W1525088692 abstract "HE WORD PHILOMORPH was coined in the 1960s by a group of people who met from time to time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss form in nature, science, and art. One of the leaders of that group was Cyril Stanley Smith. Some of my own instincts and principles in research derive directly from Smith, so I have called myself a philomorph on this occasion. Smith reacted against the direction taken by physics—particularly solid state physics—in the twentieth century. He said that its “logical, analytical, reductionist” approach was far too narrow. Its paragon was the single crystal. Only very well defined and controlled local departures from its perfect regularity were considered to be respectable subjects for research. Yet Smith saw that his own subject of metallurgy threw up a vast range of fascinating complex forms, mostly on the mesoscopic length scale—micrometres or greater—rather than the atomic scale of nanometres, which was the solid state physicist’s preoccupation. The phenomena that he admired, such as the patterned steel of a Damascus sword—a product of art, artifice, and nature—were of great utility and aesthetic value. As topics for research, these things had all the attributes that were abhorrent to many of his colleagues. They were often accidental, incidental, capricious. They were history-dependent (for which he coined the word funeous , after a character in a Borges story who tragically lost the capacity to forget). They were metastable, rather than representing true thermodynamic equilibrium. And they were not directly related to the primary physical laws such as Schrodinger’s equation. Furthermore his method was playful and eclectic rather than planned and focussed, and laid great emphasis on the power of analogy. He even called it “holistic,” but this may be misleading today. This was no New Age outcast from modern science: he wanted to broaden it, rather than to supplant it." @default.
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