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The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life - Hardcover

Davies, Paul

 
9780226669700: The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 022666970X ISBN 13: 9780226669700
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Physics World Book of the Year

A Financial Times, Sunday Times, and Telegraph Best Science Book of the Year

What is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question, for life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. Huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mystery.

In this penetrating and wide-ranging book, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name; it is a domain where biology, computing, logic, chemistry, quantum physics, and nanotechnology intersect. At the heart of these diverse fields, Davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity which has the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and force us to fundamentally reconsider what it means to be alive—even illuminating the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.

From life’s murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, The Demon in the Machine journeys across an astounding landscape of cutting-edge science. Weaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, Davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window onto the secret of life itself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, broadcaster, and bestselling author of more than twenty books. A winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, he is Regents' Professor of physics and director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022666970X
ISBN 13 
9780226669700
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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