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Murray Gell Mann Quotes
Page 2 of 2Murray Gell Mann
September 15, 1929 -
Nationality: American
Category: Physicist
Subcategory: American Physicist
|  If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. | | Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. | | I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. | | I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. | | For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. |
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