Quantum Non-Linearity

Expecting the Unexpected . The “super complexity” of human beings means that they are capable of throwing up unexpected “anomalies” and...

Mathematical Intractability Randomness is a complexity upper limit – size for size nothing can be more complex than a random distribution g...

The Big But Complex system theory, when applied to human beings, can be very successful. It is an interesting fact that many measurable hum...

The Robustness of Complex System Theory Most people, when checking out of a supermarket, will select a queue they perceive to require the l...

The Rise of Postmodernism:  In a scenario that itself could serve as a complex systems case study, the political perturbations of the eight...

Marxism on the Run:  At about the time free market economics was in the ascendancy under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan I was involved...

Complex Systems Theory:  I recently watched the three episodes of “The Trap”, a documentary screened on BBC2 on Sunday night. The program s...

It is sometimes said amongst physicists that we should take the predictions of our theories seriously, even when those theories predict se...

The following is some correspondence I had with Paul Davies on his latest book “The Goldilocks Enigma” (Penguin/Allen Lane 2006) Dear Pa...

My fireside reading this Xmas was Paul Davies’ latest book “The Goldilocks Enigma”. This book attempts an exhaustive review of contemporary...

I was looking for some text to go with the cartoon on the left, so I decided to accompany it with an extract from a speculative book I sta...

“ If a man dreamt of a great pile of stones he would dream of such a pile as the Cheesewring ”; so writes a Victorian antiquarian of the ...

Some years time ago, whilst I was working as a programmer, a software engineer who was aware of my physics background approached me and ...