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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

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