Deep Simplicity

In his book In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore the principles behind chaos and complexity. He reveals remarkable ways these two revolutionary theories have been applied over the last twenty years to explain all sorts of phenomena—from weather patterns to mass extinctions. Grounding these paradigm-shifting ideas in their historical context, Gribbin also traces their development from Newton to Darwin to Lorenz, Prigogine, and Lovelock, demonstrating how—far from overturning all that has gone before—chaos and complexity are the triumphant extensions of simple scientific laws.