Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Physics of Life

Subtitle: The Evolution of Everything

Author: Adrian Bejan

Narrator: Christopher Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

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 listener towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the natural evolution of cultural and political development. The Physics of Life argues that the evolution phenomenon is much broader and older than the evolutionary designs that constitute the biosphere, empowering listeners with a new view of the globe and the future, revealing that the urge to have better ideas has the same physical effect as the urge to have better laws and better government. This is evolution explained loudly but also elegantly, forging a path that flows sustainability.

Members Reviews:

Witnessing the evoluton of knowledge into a law of physics in the book

For long, social scientists and natural scientists have agreed that their jurisdictions are drastically different and distinct. Social sciences mainly make predictions about the diverse aspects of human dynamics in society. Natural sciences, especially physics, superbly make predictions about all sorts of natural phenomena, so long as they donât touch on the social dynamics.

This accepted tradition is boldly challenged by the renowned physicist Adrian Bejan with his constructal law, whose sweeping predictive power, as illustrated in the book, defies this arbitrary division between the social and the natural sciences. Bejanâs ingenuity lies in his insight into the key concept of physics, namely, spatial movement which he calls flow. According to the constructal law, everything that freely moves generates a morphing flow architecture whose goal is consistently to evolve into a design that facilitates moving farther, longer and better.

From this elegant law, Bejan shrewdly re-conceptualizes everything, natural, social and whatnots, in terms of the free flow of any object at issue. Everything is united into being the same category based on their movement or the lack thereof. Because of this holistic reconceptualization of everything in physics, the arbitrary division between the social and the natural sciences is bound to collapse.

In chapter 1, life is explained as movement, whether it is of animate or inanimate objects. In chapter 10, death is illustrated as the lack of movement. Between these two ends of life and death, the reader is enlightened in other chapters by Bejanâs inspiring application of the constructal law to technology, economy, spreading, growth, athletics, snowflakes, animals, locomotion, politics and sciences.