Explicit dissipative structures
Description
Dissipative structures consisting of a few macrovariables arise out of a sea of reversible microvariables. Unexpected residual effects of the massive underlying reversibility, on the macrolevel, cannot therefore be excluded. In the age of molecular-dynamics simulations, explicit dissipative structures like excitable systems (explicit observers) can be generated in a computer from first reversible principles. A class of classical, 1-D Hamiltonian systems of chaotic type is considered which has the asset that the trajectorial behavior in phase space can be understood geometrically. If, as nuatural, the number of particle types is much smaller than that of particles, the Gibbs symmetry must be taken into account. The permutation invariance drastically changes the behavior in phase space (quasi-periodization). The explicity observer becomes effectively reversible on a short time scale. In consequence, his ability to measure microscopic motions is suspended in a characteristic fashion. Unlike quantum mechanics whose holistic nature cannot be transcended, the present holistic (internal-interface) effects - mimicking the former to some extent - can be understood fully in principle
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 17
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Series
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 679-688
- ISSN
- 0015-9018
- CODEN
- FNDPA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19014463
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOLTZMANN STATISTICS; CLASSICAL MECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ENERGY LOSSES; ENTROPY; EQUILIBRIUM; FREE ENTHALPY; HAMILTONIANS; IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PHASE SPACE; PRIGOGINE THEOREM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SYMMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MECHANICS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SIMULATION; SPACE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES