Cosmogenesis : the growth of order in the universe /
Eminent Harvard astrophysicist David Layzer offers readers a unified theory of natural order and its origins, from the permanence, stability, and orderliness of sub-atomic particles to the evolution of the human mind. Cosmogenesis provides the first extended account of a controversial theory that co...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The unity of science
- 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 physics
- 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?
- Brain and mind
- Chance, necessity, and freedom.