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Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe - Tapa blanda

Layzer, David

 
9780195069082: Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
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ISBN 10: 0195069080 ISBN 13: 9780195069082
Editorial: Oxford University Press USA, 1990

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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

De la contraportada

Eminent Harvard astrophysicist David Layzer presents a unified theory of order in the universe--from permanence, stability, and orderliness of sub-atomic particles to the evolution of the human mind. Cosmogenesis is the first extended account of a controversial theory that connects quantum mechanics with the second law of thermodynamics and presents novel resolutions of longstanding paradoxes in these theories.

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Editorial
Oxford University Press USA
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0195069080
ISBN 13 
9780195069082
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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