Giuseppe Vitiello

In quantum field theory, the phenomenon of coherence plays a crucial role in the description and understanding of a large number of physical systems, in elementary particle physics, condensed matter physics, cosmology and biological systems. The coherent structure of the vacuum, or minimum energy state, manifests itself in the auto-similarity properties of fractal structures which are observed to occur in a large number of natural phenomena and systems. This leads us to an unified physical picture at the ecological scale. The conception of Nature split in closed, separated domains is replaced by the vision of Nature modulated and unified by laws of form implied by the underlying quantum dynamics of the coherent vacuum. Any distinction or antinomy between structure and function is dissolved in such an integrated ecological vision.