Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spontaneous-equilibrium.html
> The research was spurred when Granick and Yan noticed something strange in > the laboratory. As they watched a random mixture of soft-matter particles > called Janus colloids, which Granick previously developed, they observed that > the particles sometimes sorted themselves by type. Named after the Roman god > with two faces, the micron-sized spheres have one hemisphere coated with a > thin metal layer. They self-propel in the presence of an electric field, and > when a rotating magnetic field is applied, they move in circles. In the > presence of these fields, about 50 percent of the colloids orient their > metal-coated hemisphere in the same direction. The remaining 50 percent face > in the opposite direction. -- glen ep ropella ⊥ 971-280-5699 ============================================================ 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
