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the rise of a system into similar branches is typical. We can observe stable forks that are suddenly
split into two, then into four, eight etc. branches. Though each new branch is developing separately,
from macroscoping point of view – from outside, we can recognise zones where the new generation of
population appears!
CHAOS and ORDER
Though the creation of new whirls or branches depends on local conditions that are fully stochastic –
unpredictable, the process of the whole original system is the result of natural laws. Laws of
COMPLEXITY that belongs to the THEORY OF CHAOS.
Chaos is a newly recognised class of everywhere presented phenomena, part of the ORDER of our
NATURE, based on its complexity. Also in chaos there is playing a significant role the feedback
between the past and future. But CHAOS is a kind of order that doesn’t possess periodicity.
On the other side, while the behaviour of a chaotic system seems randomly it has DETERMINISTIC
CHARACTER that causes, that its behaviour is in principle - but never exactly - repeatable.
Deterministic means that there are real properties of the real system that prescribe its behaviour in
future. Because every real system is open, a random influence can turn its behaviour in a relatively
unexpected way. However, by the theory of chaos there is a challenge to predict also the time
development of such systems.
Thus, the Space is a coincidence of SCATTERING and RANDOMNESS. Also randomness has some
direction and, together with scattering, can create a surprising structured complexity. In this spirit, the
famous idea of Einstein:
“The God does not play with us cubes”
– the development of the UNIVERSE is already determined - lost its essential meaning and was
reformulated by Joseph Ford as follows:
“The God plays with us cubes, but there are pieces of lead in each of them” and our task is to
discover how they are built in.
Reference
[1] James Gleick, Chaos: Making a new science,
[2] http//: www.scholaludus.sk
What is Time? (comments to a lecture of K. Teplanova)
So, we had a lecture about the topic ‘what exactly the time is’. Lecture started in the big theater room
(Festsaal) at 15 o’clock and almost everybody got there. Our lecturer was Katarina Teplanova from
Slovakia’s Comenius University. The lecturer’s English wasn’t very good but I think that everybody
could understand the basics of the lesson. It wasn’t just about the time but the whole stuff connected
to the time. Pretty exciting also because we could participate in her lecture - the teacher was
correcting us in the answers to the questions she gave us and we could try to answer to ourselves to
the basic questions about time and I have to say, that it wasn’t as easy as anybody could think. What
would you say when somebody asks you: ‘What The Heck Does Speed Mean?’ Try to answer and
after your answer read the next sentence...I will wait...if you’re not a teacher of physics I think you
didn’t answer right. The answer is very simply, but complicated (exact): ‘Change In A Unit Of Time’.
The presentation took about two hours and something.
So the last thing I would say about this is that I loved it – maybe It’s also because I like physics and
technical stuff.
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