Unstable Nature

"Unstable Nature" is a popular science book offering a journey through the concept of instability in modern science with a focus on physics.

Dr. Auro Michele Perego received a BSc and an MSc in Physics from Università degli Studi dell'Insubria (Como, Italy) and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering - as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher - from Aston University (Birmingham, UK). He is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, where he leads his independent research group. His main research interests are: nonlinear science and the theory and applications of instabilities and self-organisation processes, fibre optics, laser physics, and photonic technologies such as optical frequency combs, optical amplifiers, optical sensing, and communication systems.

Introduction. Prelude in everyday language. Cosmic instabilities. Cybernetics and control systems. Hydrodynamic instabilities: Chaos and turbulence Modulation instability An act of creation Bifurcations Morphogenesis Instabilities at the atomic scale Quantum vacuum and the origin of perturbations Instabilities in the head Pillars of Hercules Exponential nature Universal forms Riding the future Becoming