This is a very cool clip - sent to me by Robin Tim So our beloved celebrity acupuncturist at the NeuroPhysics Training and Rehabilitation Institute. The unpredictable nonlinear dynamics of the balls in the video, which were all set off at once, is analogous to behaviour in many systems. The individual agents in a dynamical system are sensitively dependant on initial conditions as is the system as a whole. Very tiny influences from one agent to the next, can have a very significant effect on the behaviour of the system as a whole - often referred to as the butterfly effect. Your body for example, is a non-equilibrium, nonlinear dynamical system comprised of trillions of individual agents (cells) - all of which are sensitive dependant on some initial conditions - where tiny influences; lets say that Botox injection that seemingly only had an effect on the behaviour of a small population of cells, can over time (as demonstrated) have a very significant effect on the behaviour of the system as a whole. Take home message - EVERY fluctuation in biology Matters. You will note in the video how the balls move to and fro from randomness into orderliness without intervention. Regardless of what path they take though, the attractor is the pendulous stable point of rest for every ball. The balls go from unstable equilibrium (the starting position) - to stable equilibrium (their resting point). When our bodies eventually arrive at stable equilibrium, unfortunately we are dead.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:51:50 +0000