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The rainbow and the worm : the physics of organisms
- Title
- The rainbow and the worm : the physics of organisms / Mae-Wan Ho.
- Author
- Ho, Mae-Wan.
- Publication
- Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QC6 .H652 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 282 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Earlier edition published 1993.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and indexes.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. What is It to Be Alive? -- Ch. 2. Do Organisms Contravene the Second Law? -- Ch. 3. Can the Second Law Cope with Organized Complexity? -- Ch. 4. Energy Flow and Living Cycles -- Ch. 5. How to Catch a Falling Electron -- Ch. 6. Towards a Thermodynamics of Organized Complexity -- Ch. 7. The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music -- Ch. 8. Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric -- Ch. 9. How Coherent is the Organism? -- Ch. 10. Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm -- Ch. 11. The Liquid Crystalline Organism -- Ch. 12. Crystal Consciousness -- Ch. 13. Quantum Entanglement and Coherence -- Ch. 14. The Ignorance of the External Observer -- Ch. 15. Time and Freewill.
- ISBN
- 9810234260
- 9789810234263
- 9810234279
- 9789810234270
- OCLC
- ocm40443262
- 40443262
- SCSB-1428877
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library