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001491172 1001_ $$aChaisson, Eric J., $$eauthor.
001491172 24510 $$aCosmic Evolution :$$bThe Rise of Complexity in Nature /$$cEric J. Chaisson.
001491172 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2002]
001491172 264_4 $$c©2001
001491172 300__ $$a1 online resource (274 p.)
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001491172 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPREFACE -- $$tPROLOGUE OVERVIEW OF COSMIC EVOLUTION -- $$tINTRODUCTION THE NATURE OF CHANGE -- $$tCHAPTER ONE MATTER -- $$tCHAPTER TWO RADIATION -- $$tCHAPTER THREE LIFE -- $$tDISCUSSION EVOLUTION, BROADLY CONSIDERED -- $$tEPILOGUE A GRAND SYNTHESIS -- $$tSYMBOLS AND NUMERICAL CONSTANTS -- $$tGLOSSARY -- $$tWORKS CITED -- $$tFURTHER READING -- $$tINDEX -- $$tABOUT THE AUTHOR
001491172 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001491172 520__ $$aWe are connected to distant space and time not only by our imaginations but also through a common cosmic heritage. Emerging now from modern science is a unified scenario of the cosmos, including ourselves as sentient beings, based on the time-honored concept of change. From galaxies to snowflakes, from stars and planets to life itself, we are beginning to identify an underlying ubiquitous pattern penetrating the fabric of all the natural sciences--a sweepingly encompassing view of the order and structure of every known class of object in our richly endowed universe.This is the subject of Eric Chaisson's new book. In Cosmic Evolution 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. Guided by notions of beauty and symmetry, by the search for simplicity and elegance, by the ambition to explain the widest range of phenomena with the fewest possible principles, Chaisson designs for us an expansive yet intricate model depicting the origin and evolution of all material structures. He shows us that neither new science nor appeals to nonscience are needed to understand the impressive hierarchy of the cosmic evolutionary story, from quark to quasar, from microbe to mind.
001491172 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
001491172 546__ $$aIn English.
001491172 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024)
001491172 650_7 $$aSCIENCE / Cosmology.$$2bisacsh
001491172 650_0 $$aCosmology.$$0(DLC)sh 99000405
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001491172 650_0 $$aMatter$$vConstitution.$$0(DLC)sh2016001442
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