The rainbow and the worm : the physics of organisms / Mae-Wan Ho
Digitised Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
Information About
This book focuses on the fundamental physical and chemical principles which are relevant for life. It outlines the properties of organisms, and shows how a living system differs from a conventional thermodynamic machine. It also deals with the predominant energy transductions in the living system, summarizes experimental evidence for coherence in living organisms, as well as discusses the relevance of quantum theory to coherence in living systems.
Additional Details
- Title
- The rainbow and the worm : the physics of organisms / Mae-Wan Ho
- Creators
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- Ho, Mae-Wan
- Subject
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- Biology--Philosophy
- Life (Biology)
- Biophysics
- Publisher
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- World Scientific,
- National Library Board Singapore,
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- Preface -- 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. The seventy-three octaves of nature's music -- ch. 7. The coherent excitation of the body electric -- ch. 8. How coherent is the organism? -- ch. 9. Life is all the colours of the rainbow in a worm -- ch. 10. Quantum entanglement and coherence -- ch. 11. The ignorance of the external observer -- ch. 12. Time and freewill -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.