Zeldovich Y.B., Ruzmaikin A.A., Sokoloff D.D. The Almighty Chance

Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 1990. — 320 p.This book is about the importance of random phenomena occurring in nature. Cases are selected in which randomness is most important or crucial, such as Brownian motion, certain reactions in Physical Chemistry and Biology, and intermittency in magnetic field generation by turbulent fluid motion, etc. Due to “almighty chance” the structures can originate from chaos even in linear problems. This idea is complementary as well as competes with a basic concept of synergetics where structures appear mainly due to the pan-linear nature of phenomena. This book takes a new look at the problem of structure formation in random media, qualitative physical representation of modern conceptions, intermittency, fractals, percolation and many examples from different fields of science.Introduction
The Chance on Stage
Diffusion
The Brownian Motion
Fractals and Dimensions
Percolation of Random Boundaries
Random Hydrodynamic Motions
General Conception of Intermittency
Magnetic Field in a Flow of Conductive Fluid
The Casual Universe
Epilogue — The Birth of Divinamics
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