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The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issues such as sustainability, water and food supply, fuel, and economy, to critique the state in which the world understands positions of power and freedom. Breaking down concepts such as desire and power, sports health and culture, the state of economy, water and energy, politics and distribution, Bejan uses the language of physics to explain how each system works in order to clarify the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense, moving the reader towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the natural evolution of cultural and political development.
About the Author
Adrian Bejan was awarded the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal for "Thermodynamics and constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems".
He received all his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.1971, M.S.1972, Ph.D.1975) . He is the J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University:
http://mems.duke.edu/faculty/adrian-bejan.
He authored 30 books and 650 peer-refereed journal articles, and was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries, for example the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the University of Rome I "La Sapienza".
Through the Wormhole - Did God Create Evolution? - Constructal theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GMYr-H70VYo&feature=youtu.be
Constructal Law YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR7ecLXTEKVsMSMJI6-IC-A/videos? view_as=subscriber
