We are connected to distant space and time not only by our
imaginations but also through a common cosmic heritage. Emerging
now from modern science is a unified scenario of the cosmos,
including ourselves as sentient beings, based on the time-honored
concept of change. From galaxies to snowflakes, from stars and
planets to life itself, we are beginning to identify an underlying
ubiquitous pattern penetrating the fabric of all the natural
sciences--a sweepingly encompassing view of the order and structure
of every known class of object in our richly endowed universe.
This is the subject of Eric Chaisson's new book. In "Cosmic
Evolution" Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can
contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the
ways matter, life, and radiation interact and change with time.
Guided by notions of beauty and symmetry, by the search for
simplicity and elegance, by the ambition to explain the widest
range of phenomena with the fewest possible principles, Chaisson
designs for us an expansive yet intricate model depicting the
origin and evolution of all material structures. He shows us that
neither new science nor appeals to nonscience are needed to
understand the impressive hierarchy of the cosmic evolutionary
story, from quark to quasar, from microbe to mind.
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