彩虹与蠕虫：有机体的物理学RAINBOW AND THE WORM, THE
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作者： Mae-Wan Ho著
出 版 社： 东南大学出版社
出版时间： 1998-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 282印刷时间： 1998/09/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9789810234263包装： 精装内容简介
"Mae-Wan Ho's book provides a very original survey of how biology may be linked to physics through the concepts of coherence and of coupled processes. Although it is deeply serious, the writing has a pleasant touch of gaiety, due, I think, to the author's sense of excitement in the central problem: What constitutes 'being alive?'" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介
Mae-Wan Ha obtained her PhD in Bio-chemistry from Hang Kong University. She was then a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuro-sciences, Universiy of California at San Diego,a Fellow of the National Genetics Founda-tion, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow in Biochemistry, University of London.Currently she is a Reader in Biology at the Open University, UK, where she researches and teaches the physics of organisms and sustainoble systems.She has over a hundred and fifty publications
in many disciplines including six books,among which are Bioelectrodynamics and Biocommunicatian (1994) and Bio energetics (1995).
目录
PREFACE to Second Edition
PREFACE to First Edition
CHAPTER 1. WHAT IS IT TO BE ALIVE?
The 'Big' Questions in Science
The Physicochemical Underpinnings of Life
On Being Alive
CHAPTER 2. DO ORGANISMS CONTRAVENE THE SECOND LAW?
Life and the Second Law
What are the Laws of Thermodynamics?
Is Maxwell's Demon in the Livin System?
CHAPTER 3. CAN THE SECOND LAW COPE WITH ORGANIZED COMPLEXITY?
The Space time Structure of Living Processes
The Second Law Restated
Quantum Molecular Machines in Living Systems
CHAPTER 4. ENERGY FLOW AND LIVING CYCLES
The Probability of Life
Energy Flow and Material Cycles
Dynamic Molecular Order from Energy Flow
A Theorem of Chemical Cycles
Coupled Cycles and the Steady State
The Manyfold Coupled Cycles of Life
Energy Storage in the Biosphere
CHAPTER 5. HOW TO CATCH A FALLING ELECTRON ELECTRON
Life and Negative Entropy
Free Energy and Entropy
Why Don't Organisms Live by Eating Diamonds?
What Kind of 'Engine' is the Organism?
CHAPTER 6. TOWARDS A THERMODYNAMICS OF ORGANIZED COMPLEXITY
The Continuing Enigma of Organisms
The Organism as an Energy Storage Domain
Energy Storage and Mobilization is Symmetrical
Thermodynamics of the Steady State vs
Thermodynamics of Organized Complexity
Superposition of Cyclic Non Dissipative
Processes Coupled to Dissipative
Processes
The Principle of Internal Entropy Compensation
Dynamic Closure and the Autonomy of Organisms
Exquisite Sensitivity and Freedom
CHAPTER 7. THE SEVENTY THREE OCTAVES OF NATURE'S MUSIC
Reductionism versus Integration
Electricity and Magnetism
The Electromagnetic Theory of Light and Matter
Moledcular and Intermolecular Forces
CHAPTER 8. COHERENT DXCITATIONS OF THE BODY ELECTRIC
CHAPTER 9. HOW COHERENT IS THE ORGANIEM?
CHAPTER 10. LIFE IS ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW IN A MORM
CHAPTER 11. THE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ORGANISM
CHAPTER 12. CRYSTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER 13. QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT AND COHERENCE
CHAPTER 14. THE IGNORANCE OF THE EXTERNAL OBSERVER
CHAPTER 15. TIME AND FREEWILL
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