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arXiv:chao-dyn/9603009nlin.CD

Science of Chaos or Chaos in Science?

Jean Bricmont

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Abstract

I try to clarify several confusions in the popular literature concerning chaos, determinism, the arrow of time, entropy and the role of probability in physics. Classical ideas going back to Laplace and Boltzmann are explained and defended while some recent views on irreversibility, due to Prigogine, are criticized.

arXiv comments
50 pages, latex
Journal reference
DOI
doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb23135.x
Subjects
nlin.CDChaotic Dynamics

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  1. Does quantum theory imply the universe is preordained? 1 comment

    • Bricmont does a good job of discussing entropy, arrow-of-time, and irreversibility, information and probability in a purely classical statistical mechanics setting in https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9603009 . Bricmont has continued to write/expound upon these ideas ever since and…

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  2. It took me 10 years to understand entropy 1 comment

    • Of possible related interest: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9603009 I think Bricmont is a clear thinker/presenter on these matters and this article actually showed up in a "for humanities people" anthology. [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Science-Reason-Academy-Science...

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