Wow, cool! You can play with a sphere at Los Alamos Bradbury Museum that has an inner rotating sphere to generate similar turbulent patterns similar to Taylor Couette instabilities in rotating cylinders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNiocOsgxW8
I suspect Jupiter has more of a magnetic interaction but concepts I suspect are similar. Somewhat related is the unexpected reversibility of these systems as illustrated by these UNM professors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50 _______________________________________________________________________ [email protected] <[email protected]> CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Barry MacKichan < [email protected]> wrote: > I’m not sure this qualifies, but it’s too pretty to pass up. They recently > got a good look at Jupiter’s poles: > > https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-whole-new-jupiter- > first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission > > > --Barry > > On 25 May 2017, at 22:08, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Are there any good examples of a complex system that doesn't involve >> biological organisms (including human beings)? >> > > Three most used non-biological examples I've seen are: > > - ferromagnetism (described with ising model) > - Bénard cells (convection) > - Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction > > Practically any physical system that transacts forms of energy can have > critical regimes of phase transitions and would all qualify as complex > systems. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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