The logic of YinYang and the science of TCM: An eastern road to the unification of nature, agents and medicine

International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-291

  Zhang, Wen Ran ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

binary YinYang; bipolar cellular automata; bipolar YinYang; scientific unification; YinYang bipolar quantum gravity; YinYang bipolar relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054097039     PISSN: 17562104     EISSN: 17562112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJFIPM.2009.030827     Document Type: Article

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