Freedom and Evolution

Name: Freedom and Evolution
Start: 2024-04-12T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-04-12T11:00:00+00:00
Location: Berrill Lecture Theatre

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Friday, 12 April 2024

Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Venue: Berrill Lecture Theatre, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Price: Free!

Professor Bejan's lecture will explore familiar designs found all around and inside us.

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Professor Adrian Bejan's lecture at the Open University will explore familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It will then show how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Professor Bejan will explain how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel, food, and solar heating. Movement dissipates the power completely and changes its configuration constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. These ideas are captured in Professor Bejan's 2020 book, Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science. His lecture will provide both reflections and updates on these far-reaching ideas.

This lecture will be for a wide audience of all ages, including those interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas.

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Berrill Lecture Theatre
Walton Hall, The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA

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April 12th

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