The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
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Rating | : | 4.87 (842 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0805072535 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the fundamental laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world.
Stressing the urgent need to control population and to preserve biological and cultural diversity, he advocates a multidisciplinary research agenda geared toward a sustainable future for the human race and the biosphere. Along with often technical chapters on information theory, time, biological evolution and the workings of the subatomic zoo of particles, Gell-Mann devotes special attention to superstring theory, the first viable candidate in physicists' search for a grand unified theory encompassing all the elementary particles and forces. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. . From Publisher
This book makes you think! But in a fun way. I couldn't put this one down either. I highlighted many areas of interest. My favorite was about the small little butterfly on one side of the world that could "possibly" cause a hurricane on the other side of the world. Fluctuations in physics, psychology. "Four Stars" according to Bill Gauley. Very detailed and well organized.. Robert J. Crawford said trying very hard to make progress in "complexity" theory. The "reductionistic" scientific method, which seeks to reduce phonomena to simpler and more general underlying bludprints, has dominated the last three centuries. It works great in physics, as Newton domonstrated, but less well in other disciplines such as