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Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe - Softcover

Layzer, David

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

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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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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Verlag
Oxford University Press USA
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195069080
ISBN 13 
9780195069082
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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