Cosmogenesis
The Growth of Order in the Universe
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 June 1991
- ISBN 9780195069082
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 234x156x21 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 halftones, numerous line drawings 0
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Short description:
How does order emerge from chaos? How did the complex structure of the astronomical universe come into being? Eminent Harvard astrophysicist David Layzer answers these and many more questions in this remarkable tour of modern science - from spiral nebulae to neuromodulators, and from the origins of the universe to the evolution of the human mind - and probes the philosophical implications of contemporary physics, astronomy, and biology.
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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.
" 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
Table of Contents:
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.
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