Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature

by Eric J. Chaisson

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Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the ways matter, life, and radiation interact and change with time. He designs for us an expansive yet intricate model depicting the origin and evolution of all material structures.

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A lightly quantitative, thermodynamics-oriented treatment of radiation, matter, life. Uses energy flow-rate density (ergs per second per gram) as a complexity measure for phenomena of all kinds and scales.

Jan 11, 2007