Into the Cool Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life

Name: Into the Cool Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
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ISBN: 9780226739373

ISBN-10: 0226739376

ISBN-13: 9780226739373

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan

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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"…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Trouble at the EPA



The Energetic



The Schrodinger Paradox



Simplicity



Eyes of Fire: Classical Energy Science



The Cosmic Casino: Statistical Mechanics



Nature Abhors a Gradient



The River Must Flow: Open Systems



Too Much, Not Enough: Cycles



The Complex



Swirl World



Physics' Own "Organisms"



Whirlpools and Weather



The Living



Thermodynamics and Life



Brimstone Beginnings



Blue Planet Blues



Regress under Stress



The Secret of Trees



Into the Cool



Trends in Evolution



The Human



Health, Vigor, and Longevity



Economics



Purpose in Life



Principles of Open Thermodynamic Systems


References


Index