“Somehow, after all, as the universe ebbs towards its final equilibrium in the featureless heat bath of maximum entropy, it manages to create interesting structures,” wrote James Gleick in his popular exploration of chaos theory. Nature’s natural tendency is to form patterns. Conversely, the universe teems with randomness and dissipation. “But randomness with direction can produce surprising complexity.” Dissipation, too, could form a pattern.
Randomness with Direction
A Coda for Paul Kellogg, 1937–2021
