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ORDER OUT OF CHAOS 346<br />
Proust, Marcel , 17<br />
Pulley systems, 41-42<br />
Quantization, 220<br />
Quantum mechanics, 9, II, 15,<br />
34, 218-22; causality in, 31 1;<br />
correlations in, 286; cultural<br />
background to, 6;<br />
delocalization in, 289;<br />
demonstrations of<br />
impossibility in, 217, 296-97;<br />
Hamiltonian function in, 70;<br />
Heisenberg's uncertainty<br />
relations in, 222-26; and<br />
Newtonian synthesis, 67-68;<br />
and probability, 125, 178-79;<br />
and reversibility, 61; temporal<br />
evolution in, 226-29, 238;<br />
thought experiments in, 43<br />
Quetelet, Adolphe, 123, 241<br />
Radiation: black-body, 209, 215;<br />
interaction of matter and, 219<br />
Randomness, xx, 8, 9, 126,<br />
23 1-32, 236; to irreversibility<br />
from, 272-77<br />
Rationality, 1, 29, 32, 36, 40,<br />
42, 92, 306<br />
Reaction-diffusion systems, 260<br />
Real ity, conceptualization of,<br />
225-26<br />
Reciprocity relations, 137-38<br />
Reduction of the wave function,<br />
227-28<br />
Reductionism, 173-74<br />
Reichenbach, H., 97<br />
Relation, philosophy of, 95<br />
Relativity, 9, 34, 215, 307; in<br />
astrophysics, 116; Bergson's<br />
misunderstanding of, 294;<br />
demonstrations of<br />
impossibility in, 217, 296;<br />
Einstein's special theory of,<br />
17; and elementary particles,<br />
230; and Newtonian<br />
synthesis, 67, 68, 229; static<br />
geometric character of time<br />
and , 230; and thermal history<br />
of universe, 23 1; thought<br />
experiments in, 43 ; and<br />
universal constants, 217 -18;<br />
and velocity of light, 295<br />
Religion: ancient Greek, 38, 39;<br />
resonance between science<br />
and, 46-5 1<br />
Residual black-body radiation,<br />
209, 215<br />
Respiration, physiology of, 109<br />
Reversibility: of canonical<br />
equations, 71; of<br />
thermodynamic<br />
transformation, 12, 112-13,<br />
120; of trajectories, 60-61<br />
Revolution, concept of, xxiv<br />
Reynolds' number, 144<br />
Ritz, W, 259<br />
Rosenfeld, Leon, 264, 329<br />
Sakharov, A. D., 230<br />
Sartre, Jean-Paul, xxii<br />
Schlanger, J. , 321n<br />
Schrodinger, Erwin, 18-19 220,<br />
242, 329n<br />
SchrOdinger equation, 226-29<br />
Science and Civilization in<br />
China (Needham), 278<br />
"Scientific revolution," 5, 6<br />
Scott, W, 322n<br />
Sein und Zeit (Heidegger), 310<br />
Self-<strong>org</strong>anization, xv; in Benard<br />
instability, 142; and<br />
bifurcations, 160-67; in<br />
chemical clock, 148; in<br />
chemical reactions, 144-45;<br />
and dynamics, 208; as<br />
function of fluctuating<br />
external conditions, 165-67;<br />
life as expression of, 175-76;<br />
in slime-mold aggregation,<br />
156; in turbulence, 141-42<br />
Serres, Michel, 104, \41, 303,<br />
304, 320n, 323n<br />
Shakespeare, William, 293<br />
Signals, propagation of, 217,<br />
218