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Written by a wide range of experts, this work presents cosmological, biological and philosophical perspectives on complexity in our universe.

In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and shapes the desti

We say that the processes going on in the world about us are asymmetric in time or display an arrow of time. Yet this manifest fact of our experience is particu

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about

In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances an