Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' - "Sunday Times". The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals,...
Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' - "Sunday Times". The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals, our seemingly random universe is actually built on simple laws of cause and effect that can explain why, for example, just one vehicle braking can cause a traffic jam; why wild storms result from a slight atmospheric change; even how we evolved from the most basic materials. Like a zen painting, a fractal image or the pattern on a butterfly's wings, simple elements form the bedrock of a sophisticated whole. Synthesizing chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, "Deep Simplicity" brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.
Life, of course, seems to defy this process, by creating order and structure out of disordered (or at least, less ordered) materials. A plant builds its structure, and may make beautiful flowers, out of carbon dioxide, water, and a few traces of other chemicals. But it only does so with the aid of sunlight, energy from an outside source. (查看原文)
Away from equilibrium, a flow of energy can, under the right circumstances, create order spontaneously. This is a crucial insight into our own existence, since there is no denying that we are ordered creatures, and there is overwhelming evidence that the Universe began in a state of much less order. (查看原文)
2005 年，科普作家 John Gribbin 出版了 Deep Simplicity (《深奥的简洁》) 一书，通过阐述混沌系统理论，为读者提供了认知复杂世界的新工具。作者在序言中说到，一个混沌系统需要满足两个条件：其一，系统状态对初始条件敏感；其二，系统具有反馈机制。总体来说，《深奥的简洁...
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约翰·格里宾 作者
安雪仁次
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光尘刻书馆
江苏凤凰文艺出版社2019版
0 有用 weihu 2016-07-16 08:57:39
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0 有用 泰洛丹 2021-04-08 14:06:47
law of nature. 儒释道 in reality. 膜拜orz
1 有用 愤怒的老伙计 2014-07-19 20:44:06
阅读科普书籍，奠定科学哲学的根基，对于成长来说非常重要，至少你不会变的那么的弱智。这本书从物理，谈到数学，从数学，说到了生物，又从生物提及了化学，最后由化学指向了宇宙。里面的内容，还是有些简洁了。
0 有用 ztmp 2011-09-16 12:01:41
横跨多个领域、深入浅出的科普好书
1 有用 Tan 2015-12-29 09:00:15
很喜欢！读这本书就像在看电影，从个人生活到宇宙迅速放大视野的镜头。我们的世界充满混乱未知很复杂，但是生命和自然其实很简单。
0 有用 泰洛丹 2021-04-08 14:06:47
law of nature. 儒释道 in reality. 膜拜orz
0 有用 E_Rx 2020-11-25 04:43:34
核心观点：在混沌的边缘，有能量流动和自反馈，就产生了秩序。一套自圆其说的生命起源、进化理论；混沌、分形理论入门；1/f（粉红）噪音的重要性。作为工科生，自然科学总是这么吸引我。
1 有用 目送飞鸿 2020-05-21 00:20:35
读第一章的时候觉得作者的文笔很好，能把理论说得那么清晰、简洁易懂。但是后面几章有些概念介绍的不是很清楚，直接拿过来就用，有点跳。盖娅理论的介绍让人大开眼界。有点纠结到底应该给4星还是5星，最后给4星是因为毕竟不是原创的。书中提到天体轨迹的非稳定性也让人想到科学方法的局限性。科学通过观察来进行验证，但观察的精度和观察的时长受观察者自身的局限，以人的生命的时间尺度看或许是稳定的，但从天体的时间尺度看则... 读第一章的时候觉得作者的文笔很好，能把理论说得那么清晰、简洁易懂。但是后面几章有些概念介绍的不是很清楚，直接拿过来就用，有点跳。盖娅理论的介绍让人大开眼界。有点纠结到底应该给4星还是5星，最后给4星是因为毕竟不是原创的。书中提到天体轨迹的非稳定性也让人想到科学方法的局限性。科学通过观察来进行验证，但观察的精度和观察的时长受观察者自身的局限，以人的生命的时间尺度看或许是稳定的，但从天体的时间尺度看则可能是不稳定的，因此观察对科学理论的验证也是局限的。 (展开)
0 有用 一维人 2019-09-10 00:32:37
恢宏的视野
0 有用 Matt 2019-07-25 18:35:17
前年读的 补打卡 很好