The Matter Myth: Beyond Chaos and Complexity (Penguin Press Science S.)

by Paul Davies (Author), John Gribbin (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.24

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $4.18

  Dramatic discoveries at the frontiers of physics and biology have opened up an entirely new perspective on ourselves and the nature of the cosmos we inhabit. Scientists are rejecting the machine paradigm in favour of a physical reality in which concepts such as chaos, self-organization, adaptation and information flow are the key indicators. This survey examines the revolutionary transformation that is overtaking scientific thinking. From quantum theory of relativity to the latest ideas about the birth of the cosmos, they find evidence for a massive shift in emphasis and provide an advance glimpse of 21st-century science. Paul Davies also wrote God and the New Physics and The Cosmic Blueprint . John Gribbin is the author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat and In Search of the Big Bang .