Is there a natural order (and disorder)?
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Cover The Sardine and the Diamond - The Usefulness of Order and Disorder.
Éditions du Cherche Midi
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 min
What is the link between a shoal of sardines, the multifaceted diamonds and strands of DNA?
Why is order like disorder essential to life?
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Let us question ourselves in these troubled and confused times, on the usefulness of order but also of disorder at all scales.
From strands of DNA to the flight of starlings, including schools of sardines or facets of a diamond, order is omnipresent in nature: it amazes us and fascinates us to the point of obsession.
Until wanting to impose this order on everyone and especially on others (humans and non-humans)?
Even if it means forgetting that if life cannot emerge without order, it cannot evolve without disorder either ...
With
Catherine Bréchignac
, physicist, member of the Académie des Sciences, she was director general, then president of the CNRS.
His work
The sardine and the diamond, the usefulness of order and disorder
was published by Éditions du Recherches-Midi.
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