Laws in Nature

Laws in Nature
Author: Stephen Mumford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134386508

Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws. His book begins with the question of whether there are any genuinely law-like phenomena in nature. The discussion addresses questions currently being debated by metaphysicians such as whether the laws of nature are necessary or contingent and whether a property can be identified independently of its causal role.

Cassell's Laws of Nature

Cassell's Laws of Nature
Author: James S. Trefil
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780304357598

'All living things on our planet share the same genetic code - we are all just different messages written in the universal language of DNA.'CASSELL'S LAWS OF NATURE is an exciting new work of popular science reference. It describes, in a series of clear and concise A-Z essays, the discovery, significance and functioning of the laws, principles and theories that govern the workings of our physical universe. As well as describing the historical milestones of human understanding in every area of the sciences, from Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion to Mendel's Laws of Genetics, CASSELL'S LAWS OF NATURE unravels for a general readership the often mystifying complexities of 20th-century scientific theory, from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.