Dr. Prigogine's dissipative structure theory
and some critical comments on this theory

Comments on dissipative structure theory

UCL-IPT-96-03
Auteur: J. Bricmont
Titre: Science of Chaos or Chaos in Science?
Références: Physicalia Magazine, Vol 17, pp 159-208. The flight from Science and Reason, PR Gross, N Levitt, MW Lewis (eds), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 775, pp 131-175.
Abstract:

I try to clarify several confusions in the popular literature concerning chaos, determinism, the arrow of time, entropy and the role of probability in physics. Classical ideas going back to Laplace and Boltzmann are explained and defended while some recent views on irreversibility, due to Prigogine, are criticized.
http://www.fyma.ucl.ac.be/reche/1996/UCL-IPT-96-03.ps.gz
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/chao-dyn/9603009

Walter T. Grandy, Jr.

"They envision a fundamental irreversibility throughout the microscopic world, despite the absence of any empirical evidence to support those beliefs."
The Origins of Entropy and Irreversibility
http://physics.uwyo.edu/~tgrandy/entropy/node6.html

John Horgan

Trends In Complexity Studies. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN June 1995 Volume 272 Number 6 Pages 104-109
... "I don't know of a single phenomenon he has explained," says Pierre C. Hohenberg of Yale University...

Shu-Kun Lin

"... never found an application of this entropy theory in chemistry (or in biology, physics, engineering, ...)"
http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/htm/e1010001.htm and citations

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

"Ilya Prigogine"
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/prigogine.html
Dissipative structures
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/dissipative-structures.html
Also read other scientists' comments cited therein (click links).

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Dissipative structure theory

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