Dimensions
155 x 234 x 27mm
Crickets harmonise in choruses at night; the moon's spin is precisely in sync with its orbit; our breathing rhythms are controlled by thousands of neurons firing in the brain; even the coherence of a laser beam comes from trillions of atoms pulsing together. The tendency to synchronise is one of the most far-reaching drives in the universe, extending from people to planets, animals to atoms.
Steven H Strogatz, leading researcher and thinker in chaos and complexity theory, reveals the cutting-edge science that is enabling us to start to understand these huge, self-synchronising systems, from sleep cycles to superconductivity and even stock markets.
'Sync' tells the incredible story of the dazzling order and harmony at work in the universe, where cycles and patterns fit together like clockwork to affect our lives at every level. We cannot see it, we have only just begun to explore it, yet our quest to solve the mysteries of sync will herald the dawn of a new era in science.
