What A Coincidence On Unpredictability Complexity And The Nature Of Time 1st Bernhard Wessling by Bernhard Wessling 9783658406707, 3658406704 instant download after payment.

We are at least annoyed by very many coincidences. There may be sudden rain, which
was not forecast, and the picnic outside falls into the water. Some coincidences are dangerous,
such as a car that suddenly takes us the right of way. Some are even life-threatening,
such as the accidental spread of the coronavirus to humans. Other coincidences,
however, are welcome: We are often happy about small ones. So the sudden reappearance
of the sun, after we had packed the picnic quickly and could now unpack it again
after all. We marvel smilingly at the bigger one, such as the coincidence that made it
possible for me to get to know my life partner for the first time, with whom I live happily
together. We shake our heads in joyful disbelief that our favorite soccer club was
able to equalize in the very last second, and that only because an opposing defender’s leg
by chance sent the ball careening in the right direction. The development of stock prices
is unpredictable, and this is by far not the only thing that is unpredictable in economic
life. Inventions and discoveries are very often, if not predominantly, the result of chance,
coincidence and accidents.
With this book, I would like to motivate you to subject your previous world view to
a critical examination in part: Is everything really in equilibrium, should the climate, the
ecosystem, our economy really be in equilibrium at best? I do not expect you to change
or even overturn your previous ideas; but I would like to encourage you to allow for
some unusual thoughts and to think them through calmly. Because only in this way we
will be able not only to answer the question of how chance, coincidence and accidents
come into our world. We will understand the world as a whole a little better.