Sync (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Steven Strogatz
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Science and history of science
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Clocks or watches, Space and time, Time, Southeast Asia, Light, Biology or biologists, Physics or physicists, Sleep, Brain, Heart
Humans sense order in nature. Indeed, natural order is perhaps the single most pervasive theme of the history of human thought. The quality and construction of natural order, however, has not always been agreed on by people. The second law of thermodynamics, for instance, predicts that entropy, destructive disorder, will sooner or later overcome any system. Steven Strogatz rejects the universal application of this law in favor of an overarching natural order. Exactly what is the essence of natural order, however, remains a primary question of philosophers and scientists to this day....
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