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From: Han de Bruijn on 16 Jun 2010 04:11
Original title (French): La Fin des Certitudes (1996)
Dutch translation: Het Einde van de Zekerheden

http://www.quniverse.sk/buzek/zaujimave/p393_s.pdf
Essay review; Time’s quantum arrow revisited

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The End of Certainty failed to interest me in the problem and failed
to justify the rather grand claims made by the publisher.
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Sustained.

http://cmfresearch.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/the-crank-scientists/
The Crank Scientists << Carlos M. Fernandes - Research

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When the crank’s I.Q. is low, as in the case of the late Wilber Glenn
Voliva who thought the earth shaped like a pancake, he rarely achieves
much of a following. But if he is a brilliant thinker, he is capable
of developing incredibly complex theories. He will be able to defend
them in books of vast erudition, with profound observations, and often
liberal portions of sound science. His rhetoric may be enormously per-
suasive. All the parts of his world usually fit together beautifully,
like a jig-saw puzzle.The natural result is a cult following. [ .. ]
I might mention the cult of personality around Ilya Prigogine [ .. ]
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http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/prigogine.html
Ilya Prigogine

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/new-scientist-blurbs-dumb-ideas-about-evolution/

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In case anyone is interested in the failure of Prigogine’s supposed
criteria for predicting the stability of far-from-equilibrium
dissipative structures that Shalizi mentions, here is Landauer’s
(of computing science thermodynamics fame) short falsification of
the idea that entropy or its derivatives fully characterize the
steady state.
As a funny note, this work (1975) was known when Prigogine got his
Nobel prize in Chemistry (1978) where he was rewarded for exactly
this failure:
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http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/REG/bibliography/PDF_files/landauer.pdf

Han de Bruijn
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