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4619716 No.4619716 [Reply] [Original]

Is the Poincaré recurrence theorem still relevant in modern science?

>> No.4619726

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_recurrence_theorem
>In mathematics, the Poincaré recurrence theorem states that certain systems will, after a sufficiently long time, return to a state very close to the initial state.
>The result applies to physical systems in which energy is conserved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem#Quantum_mechanical_version
Seems like it.

I just hope you're not one of those people who gets a fuzzy idea of what a theorem says and then misapplies it. Like quantum mysticism bullshit.

>> No.4619811

>>4619726
i am pretty militant against quantum mystics. Don't worry about it.

>> No.4619821
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>> No.4619841

>>4619821
why thank you.

>> No.4619843

>>4619821
lol

>> No.4619858

Multiplicity in the discussion of Entropy can be related to this context, and scientists are always interested in those properties in relations to protein binding and pure statistics.

>> No.4620014

wtf, is that hitler? middle row, far left