Chaos: How Regular Can It Be?

NOV 01, 1988

Deterministic classical chaos can show up in conservative physical systems as simple as a forced swinging pendulum, yet underlying symmetries in these systems yield order within the apparently random motions.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881159

Alexander A. Chernikov

Roald Z. Sagdeev

George M. Zaslavsky

Forty years ago Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born, “God does not play dice.” Their correspondence dealt with the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, which Einstein opposed. He searched for a more direct analogy with classical mechanics that would consider deterministic processes free from probabilistic uncertainty.

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More about the Authors

Alexander A. Chernikov. Space Research Institute (IKI), Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.

Roald Z. Sagdeev. IKI.

George M. Zaslavsky. IKI.