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RESISTANCE : AN EXTENDED PHILOSOPHY OF OHM’S LAW (SCIENCE AND COSMOS)

By: Boris Kriger
Narrated by: Rebecca J Rowe
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This book begins with a simple physical law and follows it far beyond its usual domain. Ohm’s law, often taught as a practical rule of electrical engineering, is here treated as a structural statement about reality itself. Resistance is not presented as an obstacle to be eliminated, but as the condition that allows processes to exist in time, to become measurable, meaningful, and intelligible.
Moving from electricity to mechanics, from fluids to computation, from biology to society, the book argues that without resistance there is no sustained motion, no memory, no learning, and no intelligence. Perfect efficiency, often idealized in technology and economics, is shown to be indistinguishable from the collapse of process into instantaneous equilibrium. Where resistance disappears, duration vanishes; where duration vanishes, meaning cannot arise.
By tracing resistance through physical systems, living organisms, artificial intelligence, and social structures, the book develops an extended philosophy in which delay, dissipation, and constraint are not defects but necessities. Computation is revealed as controlled dissipation, civilization as a stabilization project, ethics as deliberate impedance, and intelligence as the art of operating within limits rather than abolishing them.
Ohm’s law emerges not as a narrow empirical formula, but as a minimal ontology: a concise expression of how difference, flow, and constraint must coexist for anything to happen at all. The book ultimately defends a counterintuitive but rigorous conclusion: reality cannot be frictionless, and any attempt to remove resistance entirely risks erasing the very processes it seeks to optimize.©2025 Boris Kriger (P)2026 Boris Kriger Physics Science
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This complex subject is explained in an easy to understand format, making it accessible to those wishing to get better knowledge around this scientific matter.
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