Ilya prigogine dissipative structures

Ilya Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist who won the Nobel prize in 1977 for investigating the irreversibilityof processes in complex physical systems that are far from equilibrium conditions. The physics equations describing classical dynamical motions are time reversible. One can replace the time variable tby negative time -tin the equations (reversing the time) and they remain equally valid. For example, if time were reversed, the earth would revolve around the sun in the opposite direction, but that seems quite acceptable. However, many everyday processes cannot be reversed. If time were reversed, the steam (visible as water vapor) coming out of a kettle boiling water on the stove would instead go back into the kettle. It would look like a film played backwards. With time reversed, a glass shattering on the floor would miraculously reassemble its shards flying in all directions and rise back up onto the table. No such processes are ever seen in nature. Prigogine's main research was to study the irreversibilityof these processes.

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About Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine–Recent Journal Articles       

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2004“Role of Non-integrability in Radiation Damping”
(with Ilya Prigogine and Eugenvi Karpov
Has the last word been said on classical electrodynamics? Classical electrodynamics: new horizons
eds: Andrew Chubykalo, Vladimir Onoochin, Augusto Espinoza, Roman Smirnov-Rueda (Rinton Press, Inc.)

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2004“Irreversibility, Probabilities and Dressed Unstable States in Quantum Mechanics”
(with T. Petrosky and G. Ordonez)
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 72, 12

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2003“Radiation damping in classical systems: The role of nonintegrability”
(with G. Ordonez and T. Petrosky)
Phys. Rev. A 68, 022107

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2002“Space time formulation of quantum transitions”
(with T. Petrosky and G. Ordonez)
Physical Review A 64, 062101

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2002“Quantum transitions in interacting fields”
(with E. Karpov, G. Ordonez and T. Petrosky )
Physical Review A 66, 012109

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2001“Gamow algebras