Not to be confused with Richard Morris's Time's Arrows ( LJ 3/15/85) and Stephen Jay Gould's Time's Arrows, Time's Cycles ( LJ 3/15/87), this is the first American edition of a book originally published in Great Britain. Coveney and Highfield--a scientist and journalist, respectively--demonstrate how the everyday perception that time moves in one direction is consistent with advanced scientific theory. At the center of their theory is an intriguing interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics, which describes the forces of entropy. The authors show that this concept has broad relevance in such fields as cosmology, evolution, and the emerging science of chaos. Not for the merely curious, this book cites Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time ( LJ 4/15/88) and James Gleick's Chaos ( LJ 8/87) and will appeal to readers with the relatively high level of scientific sophistication of those books. Generalists will find the aforementioned book by Morris to be more approachable.
作者借助时间之箭的概念回顾了一整部物理学史,希望在不同时期的物理学描述中寻找到有助于解释时间之箭的理论可能。 最末几章谈到了混沌系统以及混沌理论与细胞、组织、生命、群体现象之间的可能关联。作者时不时地把时间之箭附和其中(这种做法贯穿全书),这无疑是这本著作的...
评分又一本让人脑洞大开的书。感谢谢同学的推荐。“尽管我并非同意书中的每一句话”(1977年诺奖获得者伊利亚·普里高津),不可否认的是,这本书传达了作者对于“人生意义”的一种富有洞见和指导价值的阐述。 作者认为“时间方向”这个概念非常重要,但是长期以来被忽视或者理解含...
评分路德维希·玻尔兹曼(Ludwig Edward Boltzmann,1844年2月20日-1906年9月5日),奥地利物理学家,和哲学家,是热力学和统计物理学的奠基人之一。 通过这本书认识他,他在批判形而上学的时候,说了一段好犀利的话:”最平常的东西一到哲学便成为不可解决的难题。哲...
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