Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "energy rate density"

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    • Energy Flows in Low-Entropy Complex Systems 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (MDPI AG, 2015)
      Nature’s many complex systems—physical, biological, and cultural—are islands of low-entropy order within increasingly disordered seas of surrounding, high-entropy chaos. Energy is a principal facilitator of the rising ...

    • A unifying concept for astrobiology 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2003)
      Evolution, broadly construed, has become a powerful unifying concept in much of science – not only in the biological evolution of plants and animals, but also in the physical evolution of stars and planets, and the cultural ...