     Introduction
WITH QUARTZ IN THE VEINS ... - ... STANDING FIRMLY ON EARTH
      First Part
WATCHING CLOSELY AND FROM AFAR - TO PERCEIVE EITHER CHANCE OR NECESSITY
1.1 - Dealing with hot water - Few words about convection
1.2 - Nature's sleights of hand - Structures known as 'dissipative'
1.3 - Systems endowed with 'ornamental' symmetry - The apparently less known 'pervasive' structures
1.4 - Global versus local statistical symmetry - How a whole system may be more symmetrical than any of its parts
1.5 - 'Self-organization' in an isolated system - The scale model of a geological phenomenon
1.6 - A net that cannot wrap our Earth - Forbidden symmetries for a finite system
1.7 - It is matter of ... 'points of view' - Homogeneity, symmetry, and observation scale
1.8 - How a field organizes a system - Playing with 'volume forces' and 'self-organization'
1.9 - Summing up - May a pan of convection cells be presented as the stereotype of a dissipative structure?
      Appendix to the First Part
Why convection cells seem to prefer the hexagonal shape
      Second Part
PRIVILEGING BOTH DISORDER AND ORDER - TO RECONCILE GRAVITY AND HEAT
2.1 - When rough descriptions of physical phenomena are profitable enough - Economy of thought has been, is, and will be allowed ro make pre-dictions on the cheap
2.2 - When some otherwise harmless approximations may be misleading - Conversely, extreme carefulness is required to make retro-diction
2.3 - The Energy Doctrine - Thermodynamics
2.4 - The 'superficiality' of Thermodynamics - Born to satisfy requirements of beings crawling on the Earth surface
2.5 - Averaging interactions among molecules - An unusual definition of pressure
2.6 - Trying to restore to friendship and harmony two somehow irreciliable theories - An expedient to conjugate Thermodynamics and Gravitation
2.7 - Archimedes against Newton - The interaction between a self-gravitating system and any of its parts
2.8 - A thermal gradient at equilibrium? - ... if Curie's symmetry principles are valid without exception!
2.9 - Pefko's little Angel - A thermal gradient to justify an unique state of equilibrium
2.10 - Dreaming of past times - The 'isotropic' spaces of Aristotle and Newton
2.11 - A thermodynamics 'super-law' - Defining the 'state of maximum disorder' of a self-gravitating system
2.12 - Marie Antoinette and her brioches - How to attribute to the Whole Universe faults and merits of our little sweet home
      Appendix to the Second Part
Micro- and macro-systems
      Third Part
SELECTING THE RIGHT SIZE OF FISHES TO BE CATCHED - WHEN THE ROUTE OF DESTINY ISN'T TOO STRAIGHT
3.1 - The impossible disorder - Thermodynamics and isotropy
3.2 - Being out-of-disorder: precariously, unavoidably, and kaleidoscopically - Thermodynamics and anisotropy
3.3 - Three in one - Different ways to be out-of-equilibrium in a self-gravitating system
3.4 - Buscar el levante por el poniente - Moving towards equilibrium experiencing a transient status
3.5 - Step by step and amidst consecutive steps - Equilibrium and non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
3.6 - Up-hill and down-hill processes - Spontaneous evolution towards equilibrium ineluctably follows and accompanies forded departure from equilibrium
3.7 - Robotic metabolism - A model of models
3.8 - The robotic model hits again - Energy balance in deformational processes
3.9 - The plain truth - Deformational behaviors of materials
3.10 - Which size of fishes to catch - About the difference between Matter and materials
      Appendix to the Third Part
Irreversibility and tendency to order
      Fourth Part
RECOGNIZING THE TIME ARROWS - BOTH POINTING TO THE FUTURE OR TO THE PAST
4.1 - Has hydrostatic tension the same right to exist as hydrostatic pressure? On the meaning of a change of sign
4.2 - It has been Cartesius fault! - What bave birth to the need of saddling time with an arrow
4.3 - Numbers and order - Imaginary and real numbers
4.4 - Numbers or 'pseudo-numbers'? - Scalar and pseudo-scalar quantities
4.5 - Matter and anti-matter - The Feynman's diagrams
4.6 - Time ambiguity - Changes of sign and reversal of direction
4.7 - A time 'perpendicular' to every straight line - The space-time of Special Relativity
4.8 - Left and right - The space inversion
4.9 - Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus - Two lanes for the same one-way road
4.10 - Almost a paradox - How to find the space turned inside out like a glove just by changing the sign of time
4.11 - Old wives tales and Chance - Casualness or causality?
      Appendix to the Fourth Part
Les alentours de la verit�
      Fifth Part
HOW THE STORY COULD END UP - AFTER HAVING REFUSED TO KNOW WHAT 'WHO KNOWS' LIKES SHOULD BE KNOWN
6.1 - Section one ... - ... the last one

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