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A review by justusky
Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization by Adrian Bejan
1.0
What a crock of shit.
It's a 250 page advertisement for the repackaging of well-known physical and mathematical relationships into an admittedly successful microscale heat transfer design principle which the author has not-s0-humbly deemed to be a "law". This is followed by the dubious application of this "law" into virtually every physical, social and biological system imaginable. If we just squint our eyes, announce that everything is a "flow design" and plot a few things that look good on a logarithmic scale, the "constructal law" is pretty much the unifying theory (sorry, "law") and can explain everything from why Michael Phelps is fast and how ejaculation works (seriously). Isaac Newton famously said "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Instead of following the same approach, the author decided to just drape those in giants in a shirt reading "constructal law" and call it a day. This book is the scientific equivalent of trying to make "fetch" happen. Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.
It's a 250 page advertisement for the repackaging of well-known physical and mathematical relationships into an admittedly successful microscale heat transfer design principle which the author has not-s0-humbly deemed to be a "law". This is followed by the dubious application of this "law" into virtually every physical, social and biological system imaginable. If we just squint our eyes, announce that everything is a "flow design" and plot a few things that look good on a logarithmic scale, the "constructal law" is pretty much the unifying theory (sorry, "law") and can explain everything from why Michael Phelps is fast and how ejaculation works (seriously). Isaac Newton famously said "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Instead of following the same approach, the author decided to just drape those in giants in a shirt reading "constructal law" and call it a day. This book is the scientific equivalent of trying to make "fetch" happen. Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.