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100 1 $aSchneider, Eric D.
245 10 $aInto the cool :$benergy flow, thermodynamics, and life /$cEric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan.
264 1 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2005.
264 4 $c©2005.
300 $axviii, 362 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index.
520 1 $a"Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. This natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in 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. Although the second law is usually and correctly associated with molecular chaos - and thus with aging, loss, and death - Schneider and Sagan show that it is also vital to life and complexity; it is behind evolution, ecology, economics, and even life's origin. More observable than divine caprice, more real than computer simulations, and more basic than natural selection is the organizing, complexity-giving power of the second law." "Working from the precept that "nature abhors a gradient," Into the Cool details how complex systems emerge, enlarge, and reproduce in a world tending toward disorder. From hurricanes here to life on other worlds, from human evolution to the systems humans have created, this pervasive pull toward equilibrium governs life at its molecular base and at its peak in the elaborate structures of living complex systems."--Jacket.
505 0 $aPart I: The Energetic -- 1. The Schrodinger Paradox -- 2. Simplicity -- 3. Eyes of Fire: Classical Energy Science -- 4. The Cosmic Casino: Statistical Mechanics -- 5. Nature Abhors a Gradient -- 6. The River Must Flow: Open Systems -- 7. Too Much, Not Enough: Cycles -- Part II: The Complex -- 8. Swirl World -- 9. Physics' Own "Organisms" -- 10. Whirlpools and Weather -- Part III: The Living -- 11. Thermodynamics and Life -- 12. Brimstone Beginnings -- 13. Blue Planet Blues -- 14. Regress under Stress -- 15. The Secret of Trees -- 16. Into the Cool -- 17. Trends in Evolution -- Part IV: The Human -- 18. Health, Vigor, and Longevity -- 19. Economics -- 20. Purpose in Life -- Appendix: Principles of Open Thermodynamic Systems.
650 0 $aBioenergetics.
650 0 $aBiological systems.
650 12 $aEnergy Metabolism.
650 22 $aThermodynamics.
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650 7 $aHauptsatz der Thermodynamik 2$2gnd
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700 1 $aSagan, Dorion,$d1959-
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