[FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

[Barry MacKichan]

I’m not sure this qualifies, but it’s too pretty to pass up. They 
recently got a good look at Jupiter’s poles:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission



--Barry


On 25 May 2017, at 22:08, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Are there any good examples of a complex system that doesn't involve
>> biological organisms (including human beings)?
>>
>
> Three most used non-biological examples I've seen are:
>
>    - ferromagnetism (described with ising model)
>    - Bénard cells (convection)
>    - Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
>
> Practically any physical system that transacts forms of energy can 
> have
> critical regimes of phase transitions and would all qualify as complex
> systems.


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