Text: From being to becoming, time and complexity in the physical sciences. Order can and does emerge from disorder, in systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. A new perspective upon the laws of science and the world that those laws seek to explain. In such systems described by Nobel Laureate Prigogine, the law of entropy need not locally apply, and energy need not be conserved. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1980. 272 p.

See Also: foundations of physics, energy nonconservation, self-organizing systems, Prigogine effect, negentropy.

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