Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. SOME QUANTUM BACKGROUND -- 1. deBROGLIE-BOHM MECHANICS -- 1.1. SUBQUANTUM THERMODYNAMICS -- 1.2. FLUCTUATIONS AND FISHER INFORMATION -- 1.3. THE QUANTUM EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE - QEP -- 2. ON THE GUTZWILLER TRACE FORMULA -- 2.1. PROPAGATORS, KERNELS, AND THE WIGNER FUNCTION -- 2.2. REMARKS ON THE TRACE FORMULA -- 2.3. COHERENT STATES AND THE TRACE FORMULA -- 2.4. SOME MATHEMATICAL VARIATIONS -- 3. MORE ON METAPLECTIC TECHNIQUES -- Chapter 2. SOME GEOMETRIC ASPECTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REMARKS ON WEYL GEOMETRY -- 3. EMERGENCE OF Q IN GEOMETRY -- 3.1. QUANTUM POTENTIAL AS A DYNAMICAL FIELD -- 4. OTHER GEOMETRIC ASPECTS -- 5. THE QUANTUM POTENTIAL AND GEOMETRY -- 6. CONFORMAL AND QUANTUM MASS -- 7. RICCI FLOW AND THE QUANTUM POTENTIAL -- 7.1. EXPANSION -- 8. REMARKS ON THE FRIEDMAN EQUATIONS -- 9. ENHANCEMENT -- 10. SOME HEURISTIC RESULTS -- Chapter 3. ASPECTS OF EMERGENCE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOME CLASSICAL QUANTUM RELATIONS -- 3. NC FIELDS AND GRAVITY -- 3.1. REVIEW OF SOME IDEAS -- 4. GERBES AND STRUCTURE -- Chapter 4. KALUZA-KLEIN AND COSMOLOGY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY -- 3. INDUCED MATTER THEORY -- 4. MORE ON ELECTROMAGNETISM -- 5. 5-D PHYSICS -- 6. SOME QUANTUM CONNECTIONS -- 7. REMARKS ON COSMOLOGY -- 8. EXTENSIONS -- 8.1. MORE EXAMPLES -- Chapter 5. REMARKS ON THERMODYNAMICS AND GRAVITY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. INFORMATION DYNAMICS -- 1.2. ENTROPY AND THE EINSTEIN EQUATIONS -- 2. HORIZONS, ENTROPY, AND ALL THAT -- 3. THERMODYNAMICS AND FRW FORMATS -- 3.1. METRICS FROM (1) -- 3.2. METRICS FROM (3) -- 3.3. METRICS FROM (2) -- 4. THE GEOMETRY OF THERMODYNAMICS -- 4.1. UNIFIED LEGENDRE FORMS -- 5. FRW FOLLOWING (4) AND (5) -- 5.1. HIGHER DERIVATIVE GRAVITIES -- 6. THERMODYNAMICS AND QUANTUM GRAVITY - I -- 6.1. THERMODYNAMICS OF THE UNIVERSE.

7. THERMODYNAMICS AND QUANTUM GRAVITY - II -- 7.1. BOSON FIELDS AND QUANTIZATION -- 7.2. FOCK SPACE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 8. THERMODYNAMICS AND QUANTUM GRAVITY - III -- 8.1. QUANTUM COSMOLOGY -- 8.2. PARTIAL SUMMARY -- Chapter 6. GEOMETRY AND MECHANICS -- 1. MORE ON EMERGENCE -- 1.1. FLUCTUATIONS AND DISSIPATION -- 1.2. PREQUANTIZATION AND BORN'S RULE -- 2. QUANTUM MECHANICS, GRAVITY, AND RICCI FLOW -- 3. THERMODYNAMICS, GRAVITY, AND QUANTUM THEORY -- 3.1. GEOMETRIC FLOWS AND ENTROPY -- 4. MORE ON GRAVITATION -- 5. BLACK HOLES AND THERMODYNAMICS -- Chapter 7. ON TIME AND THE UNIVERSE -- 1. TIME -- 2. SPACETIME, MATHEMATICS, AND PHYSICS -- 3. NON-COMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY -- 4. MORE ON FUNDAMENTAL MATTERS -- 4.1. NC GEOMETRY, GRAVITY, AND STRINGS -- 4.2. TIME AND GEOMETRY -- Chapter 8. GRAVITY AND THE QUANTUM POTENTIAL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BACKGROUND -- 3. QEP AND GRAVITY -- 3.1. WEYL GEOMETRY AND THE QUANTUM POTENTIAL -- 4. ON THE KLEIN-GORDON EQUATION -- 4.1. ENHANCEMENT -- 5. QUANTIZATION -- Bibliography -- Index.