Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe - Couverture rigide

Layzer, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195055284 ISBN 13 : 9780195055283

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Stability exists at all levels: atomic, astronomical, and in living systems, both microscopically and macroscopically. Since he has been capable of questioning the world around him, man's curiosity has been aroused by the evolution of order from primordial chaos. In this tour of modern science, eminent astrophysicist David Layzer constructs a unified and harmonious science world view and probes the philosophical implications of current developments in quantum physics, thermodynamics, cosmology and biology.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

" 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

'Layzer certainly has a great deal to say that is interesting and thought-provoking, specifically on thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.' Charles Jenkins, The Observatory, Vol. 112, No. 1109, August 1992

'any well-written, authoritative, wide-ranging book, explaining and relating developments in a variety of fields, is to be welcomed ... David Layzer's book, Cosmogenesis, fills all these criteria ... there are lots of well presented facts in this book' E. Squires, Contemporary Physics, 1992, volume 33, number 3

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195055284
• ISBN 13: 9780195055283
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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