Cosmic Evolution

The Rise of Complexity in Nature

Autor: Eric J. Chaisson

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We are connected to distant space and time not only by our imaginations but also through a common co...

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Autor

Eric J. Chaisson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2002

Pagini

274

EAN

9780674009875

ISBN

0674009878

Enbook ID

04634414

Editura

Harvard University Press

Greutate

426

Dimensiuni

154 x 228 x 16

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We are connected to distant space and time not only by our imaginations but also through a common cosmic heritage. Emerging now from modern science is a unified scenario of the cosmos, including ourselves as sentient beings, based on the time-honoured concept of change. From galaxies to snowflakes, from stars to planets to life itself, we are beginning to identify an underlying ubiquitous pattern penetrating the fabric of all the natural sciences - a sweepingly encompassing view of the order and structure of every known class of object in our richly endowed universe. This is the subject of Eric Chaisson's new book. In "Cosmic Evolution" Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the ways matter, life and radiation interact and change with time. Guided by notions of beauty and symmetry, by the search for simplicity and elegance, by the ambition to explain the widest range of phenomena with the fewest possible principles, Chaisson designs for us an expansive yet intricate model depicting the origin and evolution of all material structures. He shows us that neither new science nor appeals to nonscience are needed to understand the impressive hierarchy of the cosmic evolutionary story, from quark to quasar, from microbe to mind.

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