Description: Life As No One Knows It by Sara Imari Walker A radical new approach to answering one of the hardest questions in science: what is life? FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like. In LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is. This is an urgent issue for efforts to make life from scratch in laboratories here on Earth and missions searching for life on other planets. Walker proposes a new paradigm for understanding what physics encompasses and what we recognize as life. She invites us into a world of maverick scientists working without a map, seeking not just answers but better ways to formulate the biggest questions we have about the universe. The book culminates with the bold proposal of a new theory for identifying and classifying life, one that applies not just to biological life on Earth but to any instance of life in the universe. Rigorous, accessible, and vital, LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT celebrates the mystery of life and the explanatory power of physics. Author Biography Sara Imari Walker is Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Deputy Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, and Associate Director of the ASU-Santa Fe Institute Center for Biosocial Complex Systems at Arizona State University. Originally trained in theoretical physics and Cosmology at Dartmouth College, and tenured at ASU at thirty-five, she has emerged as a leading young intellectual in the pursuit of understanding life and finding it on other worlds. She regularly engages with the public at events including the World Science Festival, World Science Scholars, Phoenix Comicon, and on TV and podcasts such as Through the Wormhole and NPRs Science Friday. Review Reading Life As No-One Knows It is like engaging in a mind-bending conversation about the biggest questions of all * Tim Urban, creator of Wait But Why *With wit and clarity, Walker outlines a radical new approach to bridge the conceptual gap between non-life and life * Paul Davies, author of Whats Eating the Universe *A virtuoso intellectual performance ... full of wit, mischief and bursts of insolent brevity... Walker shows us that what we call life is but an infinitesimal fraction of all the kinds of like that may arise out of any number of wholly unfamiliar chemistries -- Simon Ings * Daily Telegraph *An honorable addition to a small genre that began with Noble Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodingers What Is Life? ... Ingenious * Kirkus Reviews *Bracingly original ... This has the potential to be a game changer * Publishers Weekly *Provocative and intriguing * Wall Street Journal *A fresh take on the age-old questions Are we alone? and Where did we come from? * American Scientist *A masterfully crafted and engaging account of Assembly Theory. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in fundamental physics, the origins of life, and pursuing a better understanding of the structure underlying all of the universes creations * Annaka Harris, author of Conscious * Details ISBN0349128243 Author Sara Imari Walker ISBN-10 0349128243 ISBN-13 9780349128245 Format Hardcover Imprint Little, Brown Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 2024 Publication Date 2024-08-06 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education UK Release Date 2024-08-06 Subtitle The Physics of Lifes Emergence NZ Release Date 2024-11-11 AU Release Date 2024-11-11 Pages 272 DEWEY 571.4 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161068726;
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