Disrupted Networks: From Physics To Climate Change Hardback

by Bruce J (Army Research Office, Usa) West, Nicola (Duke Univ, Usa) Scafetta

Part of the Studies Of Nonlinear Phenomena In Life Science series

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Description

This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability.

One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks.

This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world.

In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, based on experiment and theory (data and knowledge) from the three-tiered science of experiment, computation and theory (data, information and knowledge) of the twenty-first century in everything from psychophysics to climate change.This book is unique in that it addresses two parallel lines of argument.

The first line is general and intended for a lay audience, but one that is scientifically sophisticated, explaining how the paradigm of science has been changed to accommodate the computer and large-scale computation.

The second line of argument addresses what some consider the seminal scientific problem of climate change.

The authors show how a misunderstanding of the change in the scientific paradigm has led to a misunderstanding of complex phenomena in general, and the causes of global warming in particular.