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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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21 Apr 2004 02:11:26 PM |
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Critical Mass: how one thing leads to another |
Critical Mass: how one thing leads to another by Philip Ball
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=513236
Can physics predict human behaviour?
By John Gribbin
20 April 2004
Philip Ball has written excellent and (relatively) short books on
subjects as diverse as the nature of water and the history of colour
in art. Now he returns, at much greater length, to a favourite theme:
the nature of complexity, and the way the complexity of human society
is affected by chance and uncertainty. Is there, he asks, a "physics
of society"?
Such a big theme demands a big book, but size isn't everything.
Although there is a great deal of intriguing information buried here,
it isn't always easy to find. The author seems to have been overcome
by the desire to share everything he knows, instead of cutting away
the excess foliage and leaving the beauty of the blooms.
Philip Ball
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Philip%20Ball%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
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John Gribbin
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22John%20Gribbin%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
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