User:Tobias Hoevekamp

I am a Ph.D. student in the institute of Food Process Engineering (http://www.vt.ilw.agrl.ethz.ch) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (http://www.ethz.ch) having graduated both from RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Oregon State University, USA, with a degree in mechanical engineering. Currently, I am writing up my thesis and will be available on the labor market from autumn 2002 on ...

I got fascinated by the drive of free software and hope that the philosophy behind free licences like the GPL will have a significant influence on our life. I am pleased to see that this 'philosophy' already fertilizes areas outside its primary field of application as indicated with the emergence of the GNU Free Documentation License and - for example - Wikipedia.

The main advantage of generating free software (and likewise free knowledge and free speech) via the internet is the utilization of synergy which seems to be unparallized in human's history. I like to compare the evolution of nature with the evolution of the noosphere. Both form complex structures that are apparently self-organizing. Entropy is considered a good concept for explaining the emergence of structures. I think that additionally utilizing the concept of synergy will provide a much better explanation for the both, the evolution of the nature and the evolution of the noosphere.

Here at wikipedia, I initiated and care particularly about the following articles:

Viscosity

Rheology

Dimensional analysis

Dimensionless Number

SI base unit

SI derived unit

Colloid

Synergy

Noosphere

You can find out more about me at my homepage: http://www.vt.ilw.agrl.ethz.ch/~hoevekam

Tobias Hoevekamp

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