A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
Fortunately for Prigogine, dissipative structures are easy to create in a controlled lab setting. Hit a many-particle system with a steady flux of energy, like a stream of heat or an electrical current, and watch it self-organize like magic. As the energy flows through the system, it drives it away from the disordered equilibrium state toward a “st
... See moreBobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
There are three dimensions in which all of the manifestations of consciousness operate. Consciousness operates only within the dimensions of time, space, and frequency. All matter in the universe, visible or invisible, is the result of the stress point developed by the mixture of time, space, and frequency. It is a unified field. This is how the la
... See moreJohn G. Elliott • Matter, Life, and Evolution
If those molecules bump together and form something more complex, on and on, Cronin said, “that is the selection equivalent of gravity. And that process of complexity generates everything we have in the universe that’s associated with life.”
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"So it's taken some 4.6 billion years for a cosmic swirl of gas and dust to evolve into a planet fit for butterflies and children...This intricate web of life exists because Earth operates as a system in which everything is connected and interdependent. The word 'complex' does not begin to describe the workings of this system ."