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Publisher: Basic Books (July 31, 2008)
Publication Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
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The book is an extended essay stressing the role of emergent organization laws in nature generally and in physics in particular (where we assume reductionist approaches have had their greatest success). Laughlin argues (compellingly I thought) that the world is constituted by a hierarchy of physical principles of organization, which often cannot be derived from principles governing the parts, and which furthermore are sometimes insensitive to compositional detail. Laughlin presents examples starting with phase organization of materials, from the more mundane (water) to the exotic (involving superfluidity and superconductivity). He then goes on to argue, more controversially, that systems of physical description up to and including relativity are descriptions of collective or emergent organizational principles. Emergence is not just about biology, social sciences and the weather, it's about physics.The downside for me is that I found the book a bit annoying to read. I was put off by the many digressions and modestly amusing anecdotes and also some poor analogies (all meant to increase accessibility to the lay audience, I guess). Still recommended for those with interest in the topic.
... and deliberately provocative, as several other reviewers failed to realize. If I were a good deal younger, I'd describe Prof. Laughlin's humor as "snarky", but since that adjective isn't yet in my vocabulary I'll have to go with "sm*rt-*ssed". It's perhaps a sort of humor that tickles the funny-bones of science nerds most, rather like 'viola jokes' amongst us musicians, and the anecdotes almost certainly offend those readers who find they are the butts of Laughlin's humor. He is unrepentantly scornful of those he perceives as fools. But how can you resist his description of String Theory: "a textbook case of a Deceitful Turkey, a beautiful set of ideas that will always remain just out of reach. Far from a wonderful technological hope for tomorrow, it is instead the tragic consequence of an obsolete belief system..." Yeah! I happen to think of String Theory, if I have to, as Sudoku for Metaphysicians.The unifying theme of A Different Universe is that physical sciences have "stepped firmly out of the age of reductionism into the age of emergence." I won't attempt to parse that statement; it would be like giving away the end of a suspense novel.There are also moments of homiletic wisdom to be found, sauced with humor. In his chapter about nuclear science vs. applied nuclear engineering (think Hiroshima), Laughlin writes: "... self deception has consequences. Most of the time the effect is not as dire as warfare, but simply a degradation of the quality of life. These degradations include such happy institutions as road rage, divorce court, and excessively long faculty meetings." Make of that sermon what you will! It's not unamusing to find a Nobel-winning tenured professor at Stanford still picturing himself as Peck's Bad Boy or James Dean.Geneticists should be warned that Laughlin is particularly harsh about their methodologies, even though he grudgingly admits that his kind of physics is a good deal more like biology than like the physics of yesteryear. Antone who has invested her/his retirement funds in nanotechnology will also have reason to cringe; Laughlin regards nanotubes as microcosmic black holes that swallow research money and never release it.Proponents of "Intelligent Design" should be VERY careful not to leap to any assumption that Laughlin's ideas of emergent self-organization might support their beliefs. Quite the opposite: his Emergence utterly dispenses with any need, philosophical or scientific, for a Designer.Much of what Prof. Laughlin writes, and writes about, will be cutting-edge difficult for many readers, but those readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging and comprehensible account of quantum mechanics, indeterminacy, the Standard Model, and other such items of bedtime reading than A Different Universe. Buy it for the jokes, and you may stay for the insights.
I got this as a gift for a local associate who claims innocence of the cutting edge of physics, and the controversies that play out there. I had seen a video of the author delivering a lecture at Cambridge University, on the same subject, and found the thesis compelling. So when I found that he had written a book on the subject, I read it and was further compelled. Amazon has used copies of this book for very reasonable cost, so I've bought several copies to give out.
As with Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science", this is a book with valuable philosophical insights, which many reviewers dismiss because those are not physical insights. Hence the mix of 5 and 1 star reviews. In other words, don't come here to learn physics, but if you like "why" questions, then read this book.A book that makes people angry is not necessarily revolutionary, but revolutionary books do make people angry.
I read loads of science books and generally take away something of value from each of them, however oddly written they may be, but this book was really a huge disappointment. It is supposedly about the concept of "emergence," as used by physicists, but it barely pauses between its random sophomoric stories and pontifications to even define -- let alone explain -- that term before we're off on a long series of almost completely unrelated topics, as for example, when he spends a paragraph, for no apparent reason I can find, snidely dismissing the possibility of building a quantum computer, and that even though several primitive versions of that device are now in operation. Maybe if you know this field inside and out this book will make sense to you. If you are looking for an introduction to the disputes around "emergence," however, this is no place to start. P.S.: After writing all the above I had occasion recently to reread several parts of this book. There is one glaring exception to what I wrote before, namely chapter four, which explains the mysteries of standard phase transistions in materials, especially water. It is the best introduction to that topic I've read anywhere and deals only with the phsyics, eschewing the many silly stories about physics conventions etc. that ruin the other chapters. I recommend chapter four highly. But you don't need to buy the book to read it as it is included in the online version of the book, which an internet search will turn up quickly.
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