Murray Gell-Mann: The Simple and the Complex (excerpt) — A Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove
August 27, 2010
Nobel laureate Gell-Mann addresses the relationship between the world of everyday experience and the mysterious world of sub-atomic particles. He points out that chaos theory shows that many large-scale events are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Regarding complexity, he says that random systems which are difficult to describe may be no more complex than ones [...]