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1. Heat, the Rival of Gravitation 1(}3 2. The Principle of the Conservation of Energy 107 3. Heat Engines and the Arrow of Time 111 4. From Technology to Cosmology 115 5. The Birth of Entropy 117 6. Boltzmann's Order Principle 122 7. Carnot and Darwin 127 CHAPTER v: The Three Stages of Thermodynamics 131 1. Flux and Force 131 2. Linear Thermodynamics 137 3. Far from Equilibrium 140 4. Beyond the Threshold of Chemical Instability 146 5. The Encounter with Molecular Biology 153 6. Bifurcations and Symmetry-Breaking 160 7. Cascading Bifurcations and the Transitions to Chaos 167 8. From Euclid to Aristotle 171 CHAPTER v1: Order Through Fluctuations 177 1. Fluctuations and Chemistry 177 2. Fluctuations and Correlations 179 3. The Amplification of Fluctuations 181 4. Structural Stability 189 5. Logistic Evolution 192 6. Evolutionary Feedback 196 7. Modelizations of Complexity 203 8. An Open World 207 Book Three: From Being to Becoming CHAPTER vn: Rediscovering Time 213 1. A Change of Emphasis 213 2. The End of Universality 217 3. The Rise of Quantum Mechanics 218 - 4. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relation 222 5. The Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems 226 6. A Nonequilibrium Universe 229
CHAPTER vm: The Clash of Doctrines 233 1. Probability and Irreversibility 233 2. Boltzmann's Breakthrough 240 3. Questioning Boltzmann's Interpretation 243 4. Dynamics and Thermodynamics: 1Wo Separate Worlds 247 5. Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time 253 CHAPTER IX: Irreversibility-the Entropy Barrier 257 1. Entropy and the Arrow of Time 257 2. Irreversibility as a Symmetry-Breaking Process 260 3. The Limits of Classical Concepts 261 4. The Renewal of Dynamics 264 5. From Randomness to Irreversibility 272 6. The Entropy Barrier 277 7. The Dynamics of Correlations 280 8. Entropy as a Selection Principle 285 9. Active Matter 286 coNcLusioNs: From Earth to Heaventhe Reenchantment of Nature 291 1. An Open Science 291 2. Time and Times 293 3. The Entropy Barrier 295 4. The Evolutionary Paradigm 297 5. Actors and Spectators 298 6. A Whirlwind in a Tu rbulent Nature 301 7. Beyond Tautology 305 8. The Creative Course of Time 307 9. The Human Condition 311 10. The Renewal of Nature 312 NOTES 315 INDEX 335
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CHAPTER Ill THE TWO CULTURES Didero
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CHAPTER VIII THE CLASH OF DOCTRINES
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NOTES Introduction I. I. BERLIN, Ag
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INDEX Note: Page numbers given in b
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339 Eigen, M., 190-91 Eigenfunction
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341 Galileo, 40, 41, 50, 51, 305; o
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