Time's Second Arrow - Michael L Wong

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Auteur(s) : Michael L Wong - Robert M Hazen

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/02/2026

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 192.0

ISBN : 1324105488

Résumé :

In Time's Second Arrow, Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong overturn more than a century of scientific canon, arguing that there must be a second arrow of time-a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvellously complex constituents of our universe came to be. Evolution, they boldly propose, is a universal phenomenon-not only in biology, but in the entire atomic, chemical, mineral and physical universe. Showing how a natural process of selection for increasing function has shaped the universe since its inception, they explore how this new law could possibly help us identify life on other planets and-perhaps-even understand the purpose and meaning of life on Earth in a new way.

Elegantly written and deeply moving, Time's Second Arrow reveals how our cosmic inheritance includes a drive toward wondrous invention and progress-ultimately revising our understanding of the universe and our place within it.

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Biographie:
Robert M. Hazen is executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory based at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland....

Sommaire:
spontaneous patterns manifest in murmurations of starlings. Can it be true that the laws of our universe mandate only dissolution-rendering the intricate order of a butterfly's wing, the much-vaunted complexity of the human brain, merely incidental?

In Time's Second Arrow, star scientists Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong overturn more than a century of scientific canon, arguing that, in fact, there must be a second arrow of time-a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be. Evolution, they boldly propose, is a universal phenomenon-not only in biology, but in the entire atomic, chemical, mineral, and physical universe. Showing how a natural process of selection for increasing function has shaped the universe since its inception, they explore how this new law could possibly help us identify life on other planets and-perhaps-even understand the purpose and meaning of life on Earth in a new way.

Elegantly written and deeply moving, Time's Second Arrow reveals how our cosmic inheritance includes, even alongside loss and decay, a drive toward wondrous invention and progress-ultimately revising our understanding of the universe and our place within it.