Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
Contents:
1. Flight of the swallows -- 2. A new scientist -- 3. Galileo's trajectory -- 4. On the shoulders of giants -- 5. Geometry on my mind -- 6. The tangled tale of phase space -- 7. The lens of gravity -- 8. On the quantum footpath -- 9. From butterflies to hurricanes -- 10. Darwin in the clockworks -- 11. The measure of life -- 12. Epilogue : Galileo at home in the multiverse.
Summary:
'Galileo Unbound' traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems.-- Back jacket cover.
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