Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies write by Adrian Bejan. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Time and beauty are two of our most visceral perceptions. Yet, their nature is seldom questioned. In this ground-breaking new work, Adrian Bejan — a true 'original' among physicists — explains, in a scholarly yet colorful style, the scientific basis for the perception of time and beauty.Organized into three main ideas, the book begins first with the perception of time. The author expounds on why we feel that time flies faster as we get older. Perceived time, also called 'mind time,' is different from clock time. In this context, time is another word for 'perceived change'. Next, readers will discover that beauty is appealing because beautifully-shaped images are scanned faster by two eyes. To observe our immediate surroundings and to understand them faster is highly advantageous to survival; hence, there is an underlying evolutionary advantage to our discernment for ideal ratios, shapes, and beauty at large. Finally, time and beauty are jointly understood to explain why the global pandemic had decelerated our mind time. This understanding arms us with techniques to slow down our mind time (which accelerates with age), and to create the conditions for living longer and more creatively.Scientists may have contemplated aspects of time and beauty separately. In contrast, the author submits an original and rewarding approach to understanding them together. In the process, key questions to our cognition are answered. Why does the mind 'try' to make sense of a new mental image? Why is there a natural tendency to organize a new input and mentally position it among past perceptions? Through physics, the book offers a general answer: to empower the individual with speed and clarity of thought, understanding, decision-making and movement. The same answer holds for the other disparate perceptions illustrated in this book, from time and beauty to ideas, message, shape, perspective, art, science, illusions, and dreams.
Design in Nature
Design in Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design in Nature write by Adrian Bejan. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Design in Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.
Freedom and Evolution
Freedom and Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom and Evolution write by Adrian Bejan. This book was released on 2019-12-06. Freedom and Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. Written for wide audiences of all ages, including readers interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas, the book shows how many “design change” concepts acquire a solid scientific footing and how they exist with the evolution of nature, society, technology and science.
A Great and Terrible Beauty
A Great and Terrible Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Great and Terrible Beauty write by Libba Bray. This book was released on 2010-05-01. A Great and Terrible Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?
The Physics of Life
The Physics of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Physics of Life write by Adrian Bejan. This book was released on 2016-05-24. The Physics of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An empowering new view of the nature of physics and the constant evolution of our physical and social world
