By I Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers
Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his paintings at the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium platforms, makes his rules obtainable to a large viewers during this e-book, which has engendered giant debate in Europe and the US. He and his colleague, Isabelle Stengers, exhibit how the 2 nice subject matters of vintage technological know-how, order and chaos, which coexisted uneasily for hundreds of years, are being reconciled in a brand new and unforeseen synthesis.
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The models considered by classical physics seem to us to occur only in limiting situations such as we can create ar tificially by putting matter into a box and then waiting till it reaches equilibrium. The artificial may be deterministic and reversible. The natu ral contains essential elements of randomness and irrevers ibility. This leads to a new view of matter in which matter is no longer the passive substance described in the mechanistic world view but is associated with spontaneous activity.
It is essential that this bar rier exist; if not, causality would fall to pieces. Similarly, the entropy barrier is the prerequisite for giving a meaning tQ com munication. Imagine what would happen if our future would become the past for other people ! We shall return to this later. The recent evolution of physics has emphasized the reality of time. I n the process new aspects of time have been u n covered. A preoccupation with time runs all through our cen tury. Think of Einstein, Proust, Freud , Teilhard, Peirce, or Whitehead.
We describe traditional attempts to approach the problem of irreversibility first in classical and then in quantum mechanics. Pioneering work was done here, especially by Boltzmann and Gibbs. However, we can state that the problem was left largely unsolved. As Karl Popper relates it, it is a dramatic story: first, Boltzmann thought he had given an objective formulation to the new concept of time implied in the second law. But as a result of his controversy with Zermelo and others, he had to retreat.