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Into the Cool

Into the Cool

Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life

Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan

362 pages, parution le 01/12/2006

Résumé

Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan look for answers in a surprising place: the second law of thermodynamics. This second law refers to energy's inevitable tendency to change from being concentrated in one place to becoming spread out over time. In this scientific tour de force, Schneider and Sagan show how the second law is behind evolution, ecology,economics, and even life's origin.

Working from the precept that "nature abhors a gradient," Into the Cool details how complex systems emerge, enlarge, and reproduce in a world tending toward disorder. From hurricanes here to life on other worlds, from human evolution to the systems humans have created, this pervasive pull toward equilibrium governs life at its molecular base and at its peak in the elaborate structures of living complex systems. Schneider and Sagan organize their argument in a highly accessible manner, moving from descriptions of the basic physics behind energy flow to the organization of complex systems to the role of energy in life to the final section, which applies their concept of energy flow to politics, economics, and even human health.

A book that needs to be grappled with by all those who wonder at the organizing principles of existence, Into the Cool will appeal to both humanists and scientists. If Charles Darwin shook the world by showing the common ancestry of all life, so Into the Cool has a similar power to disturb-and delight-by showing the common roots in energy flow of all complex, organized, and naturally functioning systems.

L'auteur - Dorion Sagan

Dorion Sagan is the author of Biospheres and, with Dr. Eric Schneider, Into the Cool: The New Thermodynamics of Life. He lives in New York City.

Sommaire

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Trouble at the EPA
  • The Energetic
  • The Complex
  • The Living
  • The Human
  • Appendix: Principles of Open Thermodynamic Systems
  • References
  • Index
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Éditeur(s) The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s) Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan
Parution 01/12/2006
Nb. de pages 362
Format 15 x 23
Couverture Broché
Poids 615g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780226739373
ISBN13 978-0-226-73937-3

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