The 4th Paradigm of science: Social Networks

About the Book

The 4th paradigm of science: why.

About the Author

Luis Sancho is a Complexity scientist from Barcelona University, known for his pioneer work in Information Theory, Systems sciences and Duality, sciences that explain the Universe using two parameters, the arrows of energy or entropy, used by physicists to explain a dying universe and the arrow of information that creates life. Unlike physicists, system scientists describe a Universe in perpetual motion and balance between the creative forces of information, dominant in biological and social processes and the arrow of entropy and death that constantly simplifies reality. This tug of war between the two poles of reality creates a series of life and death cycles that affect all the species of the Universe, which are born in a young age of energy, warp into information in the life phase of the cycle to explode back into energy when they die; since we do not exist in space and time but are made of informative time-cycles that constantly imprint and reproduce its form on the energy and motions of the vacuum. And so only using those 2 parameters of reality, form and energy or motion and its combinatory games and complementary species - fields of energy and particles of information in physics, bodies of energy and heads of information in biology - we can resolve the pending problems of physics and biology, creating a more balanced vision of Life and the meaning of our existence, since we, human beings and life despite our complexity follow the same time cycles that all the entities of the Universe. Luis Sancho lives between Barcelona and California. He shares his time between his work as a complex scientist, his activisim against the Nuclear industry for a sustainable planet and his family and friends, taking to the sea from time to time to forget the problems of the world we live in... so different from the world we could create if we respected the rules of the game of existence of which all of us are just a fractal part self-similar to the Whole.