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ORDER OUT OF CHAOS 340<br />

Equilibrium, xvi; and baker<br />

transformation, 273;<br />

chemical, 133; chemical<br />

reactions in, 179-80; and<br />

entropy, 120, 131; evolution<br />

toward, 24 1-43; flux and<br />

force at, 135-37; in future,<br />

275, 276; and matter-light<br />

interaction, 219; maximum<br />

probability at, 286; and<br />

theory of ensembles, 265;<br />

thermal, 105, 116; thermal<br />

chaos in, 168; in<br />

thermodynamics, 12, 13,<br />

125-29, 138; velocity<br />

distribution in state of, 241;<br />

see also Far-fromequilibrium;<br />

Nonequilibrium<br />

Ergodic systems, 266<br />

Espagnat, B. d', 329n<br />

Esprit de systeme, 83<br />

Euclid, 171<br />

Euler, Leonhard, 52, 65, 82<br />

Everett, 228<br />

Evolution, xx, 12, 128; and<br />

arrow of time, xxv;<br />

bifurcations in, 171-72;<br />

biological, 153; Boltzmann .<br />

on, 240; chemical, 177;<br />

concepts from physics<br />

applied to, 207-9; cosmic,<br />

215, 288; Darwinian, 128;<br />

from disorder to order, xxix;<br />

entropy in, 119, 131; toward<br />

equilibrium, 241-43;<br />

feedback in, 196-203 ;<br />

logistic, 192-96, 204;<br />

·paradigm of, 297-98; in<br />

quantum mechanics,<br />

226-228, 238; toward<br />

stationary state, 138-39;<br />

structural stability in, 189-91<br />

Existentialism, xxii<br />

Expanding universe, 2, 19, 215,<br />

259<br />

Experimentation, 5, 41-44; and<br />

global truth, 44-45 ; Kant<br />

and, 88; universality of<br />

language postulated by, 51;<br />

Whitehead on, 93, 95 ; see<br />

also Thought experiments<br />

Falling bodies, Galileo's laws<br />

for, 57, 64<br />

Far-from-equjlibrium, xxvi,<br />

xxvii, 13-14, 140-45, 300;<br />

chemical instability in,<br />

146-53; in chemistry, 177;<br />

dissipative structures in, 189;<br />

in molecular biology, 153-59;<br />

prebiotic evolution in, 191;<br />

self-<strong>org</strong>anization in, 176<br />

Faraday, Michael, 108<br />

Faust (Goethe), 128<br />

Feedback, 153; in biological<br />

systems, 154; in evolution,<br />

191, 196-203 ; between<br />

science and society, xiii<br />

Feigenbaum sequence, 169<br />

Feuer, 329n<br />

Feynman, Richard, 44<br />

Fluctuations, xv, xxiv-xxv,<br />

xxvii, 124-25, 140-41, 143;<br />

amplification of, 141, 143<br />

181-89; and chemistry,<br />

177-79; and correlations,<br />

179-8 1; in Markov process,<br />

238; on microscopic scale,<br />

23 1-32<br />

Fluid flow, 141<br />

Fluxes, 135-37; random noise<br />

in, 166-67; in reciprocity<br />

relations, 137-38<br />

Forces: generalized, 135-37; in<br />

reciprocity relations, 137-38<br />

Fourier, Baron Jean-Joseph, 12,<br />

104, 105, 107, 115-17<br />

Fraser, J. T. , 214<br />

Frederick II, King of Prussia,<br />

52<br />

Free particles, 70-72<br />

Free will, xxii<br />

Freud, Sigmund, 17<br />

Friedmann, Alexander, 215<br />

Fundamental level of<br />

description, 252-53

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