Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change Hardcover - 2010
by Bruce J. West; Nicola Scafetta
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This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change.
This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument. The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation. The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change. The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.
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- Title Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change
- Author Bruce J. West; Nicola Scafetta
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher World Scientific Publishing Company
- Date 2010-03-22
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9789814304306 / 9814304301
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 06/01/2011, Page 212
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