[FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

Mon May 29 23:10:19 EDT 2017

Now THAT’S a model.  

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Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 5:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

Wow, cool!

You can play with a sphere at Los Alamos Bradbury Museum that has an inner rotating sphere to generate similar turbulent patterns similar to Taylor Couette instabilities in rotating cylinders:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNiocOsgxW8

I suspect Jupiter has more of a magnetic interaction but concepts I suspect are similar.

Somewhat related is the unexpected reversibility of these systems as illustrated by these UNM professors:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50

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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com <mailto:barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> > wrote:

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 <mailto: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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