Emergence(形容词emergent)原是El常用语,其本意是coming into view,或coming out(fromwater)(Oxford字典),或arising into view(Webester字典),汉语可译作“涌现”.与它字型非常相近的一个字emergency则有“紧急事件”、“突发事故”之意.早在19世纪,特别是20世纪以来,emergence一词被许多学科的学者引用,赋予了新的含义.物理学界用到此词在时间上相对比较晚,可能是20世纪七八十年代.然而emergence这个词的新含义却与物理学有着本质的联系.
The tortuous path getting to the founding of quantum mechanics in 1925—1926 is reviewed,stressing on the historical heritage from the classical analytical mechanics and the physical ideas full of genius expressed on the way.