Cosmogenesis

The Growth of Order in the Universe

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

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Beskrivning

This fascinating study of chaos and order in the universe marks a new direction in scientific approaches to these areas. Rejecting Laplacian notions of `meaningless', coincidental order and of a ruling tendency towards dissolution and chaos, Layzer draws physics, biology, chemistry, and astronomy into a fluid philosophy of order, able to accommodate the individual act and random event without causing structural breakdown.Layzer manages to be both entertaining and very convincing at the same time. Among the intriguing side issues he brings up are a new theory for the origins of the universe and a physical explanation for why off-key musical notes jar.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1991-06-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195069082

Utforska kategorier

Astronomi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Fysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

David Layzer is the Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University. He is the author of Constructing the Universe.

Recensioner i media

" I found every chapter stimulating, thought provoking, wide ranging, philosophically sensitive, and thoroughly enjoyable.... This is a book inspired by a genuine passion for the light that science can cast and which spans many of the great questions of being with an understated, controlled, spiritual, optimism." The Times Higher Education Supplement on the hardback

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: A THEORY OF ORDER: Science, philosophy, and truth; Order and randomness; The strong cosmological principle and time's arrow; The importance of being discrete; Seven steps to quantum physics; Alice in quantumland; The strong cosmological principle and quantum theory; PART II: ASPECTS OF TIMEBOUND ORDER: Cosmic evolution: the standard model; Gravitational clustering and structural order; Molecules, genes, and evolution; Evolution and the growth of order; Language, thought, and perception; What is consciousness?; Mind and body; Chance, necessity, and freedom; Notes.