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Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe

Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9789814651660
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe written by Arieh Ben-Naim and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy -- two of the most frequently discussed topics in recent literature -- and whether they are relevant to life and the entire universe. Entropy is commonly interpreted as a measure of disorder. This interpretation has caused a great amount of "disorder" in the literature. One of the aims of this book is to put some "order" in this "disorder." The book explains with minimum amount of mathematics what information theory is and how it is related to thermodynamic entropy. Then it critically examines the application of these concepts to the question of "What is life?" and whether or not they can be applied to the entire universe.

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593186583
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Biggest Ideas in the Universe written by Sean Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone... Impeccable.”—Wall Street Journal “A porthole into another world.”—Scientific American “Brings science dissemination to a new level.”—Science The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables. No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.

Every Life Is on Fire

Author : Jeremy England
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541699009
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Every Life Is on Fire written by Jeremy England and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things that, puzzlingly, weren't. For centuries, the scientific question of life's origins has confounded us. But in Every Life Is on Fire, physicist Jeremy England argues that the answer has been under our noses the whole time, deep within the laws of thermodynamics. England explains how, counterintuitively, the very same forces that tend to tear things apart assembled the first living systems. But how life began isn't just a scientific question. We ask it because we want to know what it really means to be alive. So England, an ordained rabbi, uses his theory to examine how, if at all, science helps us find purpose in a vast and mysterious universe. In the tradition of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Every Life Is on Fire is a profound testament to how something can come from nothing.

Best Sellers Selling Confusion on Entropy, Information, Life and The Universe

Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Best Sellers Selling Confusion on Entropy, Information, Life and The Universe written by Arieh Ben-Naim and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you read or are you planning to read any of the following books? 1: "A Brief History of Time," by S. Hawking (1988)2: "A Briefer History of Time," by S. Hawking and L. Mlodinow (2005)3: "Decoding the Universe," by C. Seife (2007)4: "Programming the Universe," by S. Lloyd (2006)5: "From Eternity to Here," by S. Carroll (2010)6: "The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe itself," by S. Carroll (2016)7: "Now, The Physics of Time," by R. Muller (2016)8: "The Order Time," by C. Rovelli (2018)Then this book is for you!What drives the popular science book industry today? Do marketing and profit lead the way? Or do honesty and first principle thinking still hold as its core value? This book argues for maintaining the latter and takes a critical look at eight "best-selling" popular science books which spread erroneous ideas and misinformation on topics such as Time, Entropy, Information Theory, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Using humor and reason the author puts under the microscope and scrutinizes the confusion and ignorance spread by some of popular sciences' greatest authors. It is written in simple, clear language which is accessible to scientists as well as to laypersons. The author, Arieh Ben-Naim, is a professor emeritus of the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He has published over twenty books and most of his research work focused on the theory of liquids and solutions and understanding the peculiar and outstanding properties of water and the role of water in biological systems. In recent years, the author shifted his focus toward clarifying and explaining to the wider public audience one of the most mysterious concepts in Physics: Entropy. Deemed by numerous scientists as a concept that will forever remain shrouded in mystery, the author set out on a mission to demystify the concept of entropy and provide a platform to hold popular science writing accountable to the highest level for both the lay and advanced reader alike.

Entropy Theory of Aging Systems

Author : Daniel Hershey
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1908978651
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Entropy Theory of Aging Systems written by Daniel Hershey and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entropy is a measure of order and disorder. If left alone, aging systems go spontaneously from youthful, low entropy and order to old, high entropy and disorder. This book presents the commonality of entropy principles which govern the birth, maturation, and senescent history of aging humans, corporations, and the universe. Mainly we introduce an entropy theory of aging, based on the non-equilibrium thermodynamic ideas of Ilya Prigogine, leading to the thermodynamic concepts of Excess Entropy (EE) and Excess Entropy Production (EEP). We describe the aging process in humans in terms of the EE and EEP concepts. This book also describes the informational entropy theory and equations of Claude Shannon and the six Hershey parameters which trace and mark the lifecycle of corporations. To conclude, this volume uses classical and informational entropy concepts, equations and calculations to explain the birth, evolution, and death of our aging universe, and all of this in relation to the concept of Infinity. Contents:Life and DeathEntropy, Infinity and GodLifespan and Factors Affecting It: HumansEntropy Theory of Aging Systems: HumansEntropy Theory of Aging Systems: The CorporationEntropy Theory at Aging Systems: The Universe Readership: General audience, astrophysicists, physical chemists, researchers and academics in chaos, physics, engineering, mathematics, social science and life sciences. Keywords:Entropy;Prigogine;Shannon;Information;Hershey;Universe;Lifestyles;Corporations;SystemsKey Features:Describes comprehensively the aging process that is very similar for humans, corporation, and the universeHighlights that Infinity is the universal attractor, where everything begins and endsFeatures essentially an entropy “theory of everything”

Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe

Author : Tom Stonier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447132653
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe written by Tom Stonier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so if the book has been translated into Arabic. Now the reader can discern no meaning in the letters. The text conveys almost no information to the reader, yet the linguistic informa tion contained by the book is virtually the same as in the English original. The reader, familiar with books will still recognise two things, however: First, that the book is a book. Second, that the squiggles on the page represent a pattern of abstractions which probably makes sense to someone who understands the mean ing of those squiggles. Therefore, the book as such, will still have some meaning for the English reader, even if the content of the text has none. Let us go to a more extreme case. Not a book, but a stone, or a rock with engravings in an ancient language no longer under stood by anyone alive. Does such a stone not contain human information even if it is not decipherable? Suppose at some point in the future, basic knowledge about linguistics and clever computer aids allow us to decipher it? Or suppose someone discovers the equivalent of a Rosetta stone which allows us to translate it into a known language, and then into English? Can one really say that the stone contained no information prior to translation? It is possible to argue that the stone, prior to deciphering contained only latent information.

Information Theory of the Cosmos

Author : Raghunath Tiruvaipati
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Theory of the Cosmos written by Raghunath Tiruvaipati and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with information theory spanning across different areas of science such as Quantum Physics, Quantum Computing, Genetics, Thermodynamics. It describes how information underlies everything in the universe and the relationship between entropy of the universe and information. it takes into account Shannon's information theory introduced in 1948 and discusses contemprerary developments in the information theory field. it discusses how the universe originated from bigbang and how life evolved for the last 4.5 billion years that the Earth was formed. More over, it deals with new concepts in the field of quantum physics like quantum entanglement and quantum tunneling . it also discusses the possibilities of sending information at the speed of light or more than that. it describes the Boltzmann's equations for stastical systems, maxwell's daemon, turing machine. this book touches upon a little bit of mathematic equations to explain about the quantum computing, how to build quantum logic gates and further developments in that field . it talks about astronomical objects like blackholes, quasars and the thermo-dynamics operating behind them. it touches upon genetics as genes carry a huge amount of information in their DNA to shape up an organism.

Grammatical Man

Author : Jeremy Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140225044
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical Man written by Jeremy Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life

Author : Hubert P. Yockey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521802932
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life written by Hubert P. Yockey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Entropy, Information, and Evolution

Author : Bruce H. Weber
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262731683
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Entropy, Information, and Evolution written by Bruce H. Weber and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1987-12-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most exciting and controversial areas of scientific research in recent years has been the application of the principles of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the problems of the physical evolution of the universe, the origins of life, the structure and succession of ecological systems, and biological evolution.

The Ascent of Information

Author : Caleb Scharf
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087259
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Ascent of Information written by Caleb Scharf and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of fascinating insights drawn from an impressive range of disciplines, The Ascent of Information casts the familiar and the foreign in a dramatic new light.” —Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Your information has a life of its own, and it’s using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create—all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos—amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it’s an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn’t just something we produce; it’s the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future.

Programming the Universe

Author : Seth Lloyd
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400033861
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming the Universe written by Seth Lloyd and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes. All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also information–in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing, ultimately? “Its own dynamical evolution,” he says. “As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds.” Programming the Universe, a wonderfully accessible book, presents an original and compelling vision of reality, revealing our world in an entirely new light.

Four Laws That Drive the Universe

Author : Peter Atkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647632
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Four Laws That Drive the Universe written by Peter Atkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal, and from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself - everything is directed and constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concepts such as temperature and heat, and reveal the arrow of time and even the nature of energy itself. Peter Atkins' powerful and compelling introduction explains what the laws are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics. Guiding the reader from the Zeroth Law to the Third Law, he introduces the fascinating concept of entropy, and how it not only explains why your desk tends to get messier, but also how its unstoppable rise constitutes the engine of the universe.

Origin of Temporal (t > 0) Universe

Author : Francis T.S. Yu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000732924
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Origin of Temporal (t > 0) Universe written by Francis T.S. Yu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe; dimensionality and causality constraints. The essence of this book is to show that everything has a price within our temporal (t > 0) universe; energy and time. In mathematics, every postulation needs proof; there exists a solution before searching for the solution. Yet science does not have seem to have a criterion as mathematics does; to prove first that a postulated science exists within our temporal universe. Without such a criterion, fictitious science emerges, as already have been happening in every day’s event. In this book, the author has shown there exists a criterion for a postulated science whether or not it is existed within our universe. The author started this book from Einstein’s relativity to the creation of our temporal universe. He has shown that every subspace within our universe is created by energy and time, in which subspace and time are coexisted. The important aspect is that every science has to satisfy the boundary condition of our universe; causality and dimensionality. Following up with temporal universe, the author has shown a profound relationship with the second law of thermodynamics. He examines the relationship between entropy with science as well as communication with quantum limited subspace throughout the book. The author discusses the paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat (which has been debated by Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger and many others since 1935) that triggered his discovering that Schrödinger’s quantum mechanics is a timeless machine, in which he has disproved the fundamental principle of superposition within our universe. Since quantum mechanics is a virtual mathematics, he has shown that a temporal quantum machine can, in principle, be built on the top of a temporal platform. This book is intended for cosmologists, particle physicists, astrophysicists, quantum physicists, computer scientists, engineers, professors and students as a reference and research-oriented book.

Information, Entropy, and Progress

Author : Robert U. Ayres
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780883189115
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Information, Entropy, and Progress written by Robert U. Ayres and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market: Those in economics, especially thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, cybernetics, information theory, resource use, and evolutionary economic behavior. This book presents an innovative and challenging look at evolution on several scales, from the earth and its geology and chemistry to living organisms to social and economic systems. Applying the principles of thermodynamics and the concepts of information gathering and self- organization, the author characterizes the direction of evolution in each case as an accumulation of "distinguishability" information--a type of universal knowledge.

The Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe

Author : Arieh Ben-Naim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813223472
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe written by Arieh Ben-Naim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concepts in thermodynamics — probability, entropy, Helmholtz energy and Gibbs energy. It presents the concepts of entropy, free energy and various formulations of the Second Law in a friendly, simple language. It is devoid of all kinds of fancy and pompous statements made by authors of popular science books who write on this subject. The book focuses on the Four Laws of Thermodynamics. As it is said in the dedication page, this book is addressed to readers who might have already been exposed to Atkins' book having a similar title. It challenges both the title, and the contents of Atkins' book, Four Laws That Drive The Universe. One can glean from the title of this new book that the author's views are diametrically opposed to the views of Atkins. The book is addressed to any curious and intelligent reader. It aims to tickle, and hopefully to satisfy your curiosity. It also aims to challenge your gray matter, and to enrich your knowledge by telling you some facts and ideas regarding the Four Laws of Thermodynamics.

From Eternity to Here

Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452296544
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book From Eternity to Here written by Sean Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.