How chaos drives the arrow of time

This post is a continuation of our last post on chaos. We therefore recommend you to read that one first, but it’s by no means necessary.

Time only moves forward – this is what we experience in our everyday lives. Often, people connect this to the fact that there are clearly processes in nature which cannot be undone: when you boil an egg you can not make the egg-white transparent again, your coffee is very unlikely to go back into the coffee powder, which will never become a full bean again itself.

Continue reading “How chaos drives the arrow of time”

About Chaos (or why you should carry an umbrella with you tomorrow)

It is an amazing, yet often overlooked, feeling to go out of your house, fully clad in summer clothes, look up to a blue sky and a bright sun and knowing it will be like that all day. That a storm will not suddenly pop up and ruin your grilling and make you walk soaked to your house, right?

Well, we owe that nice feeling to the countless meteorologists that devote their lives to studying the weather and also try to apply that science to everyone’s everyday life. This is a fundamental property of any scientific theory: prediction. Or in weather-like slang, forecast.

But how is this forecast done, and how is it related to many body physics?

Continue reading “About Chaos (or why you should carry an umbrella with you tomorrow)”