The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by
examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both
animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power,
movement, and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan
explores controversial and relevant issues such as sustainability, water
and food supply, fuel, and economy, to critique the state in which the
world understands positions of power and freedom. Breaking down concepts
such as desire and power, sports, health and culture, the state of
economy, water and energy, politics and distribution, Bejan uses the
language of physics to explain how each system works in order to clarify
the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense, moving the
listener towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the
natural evolution of cultural and political development. The Physics of
Life argues that the evolution phenomenon is much broader and older
than the evolutionary designs that constitute the biosphere, empowering
listeners with a new view of the globe and the future, revealing that
the urge to have better ideas has the same physical effect as the urge
to have better laws and better government. This is evolution explained
loudly but also elegantly, forging a path that flows sustainability.
