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Record 1 1993-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
CONT

Prigogine's new uncertainty principle says that beyond a certain threshold of complexity, systems go in unpredictable directions : they lose their initial conditions and cannot be reversed or recovered. This inability to go backward in time is an "entropy barrier".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
CONT

Le nouveau principe d'incertitude de Prigogine dit qu'au-delà d'un certain seuil de complexité, les systèmes partent dans des directions imprévisibles; ils perdent leurs conditions initiales et ne peuvent être inversés ou restaurés. Cette incapacité à faire marche arrière dans le temps est une «barrière d'entropie».

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