| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-316) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 connects quantum mechanics with the second law of thermodynamics, and presents novel resolutions of longstanding paradoxes in these theories, such as those of Schroedinger's cat and the arrow of time. Layzer's main concerns in the second half of the book are with the philosophical issues surrounding s. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cosmology.
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Cosmology. |
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Evolution.
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Evolution. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Layzer, David. Cosmogenesis. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990 9780195055283 (DLC) 88012530 (OCoLC)17878202 |
| ISBN |
9780198022213 (electronic book) |
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0198022212 (electronic book) |
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