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At 3:51 PM 7/5/96, John 015 wrote:

>As for the elementary processes behind the formation of
>bubbles being chaotic - I hope not :-).

Isn't it true that a system is considered 'chaotic' if it's progress in state
space is sensitive to initial conditions?  A purely stochastic
model might predict the maximum likelyhood of the state of a system over
time assuming that the system was not sensitive to initial conditions.  An
example might be the progress in state space of two isolated systems that
are brought together, say a box full of O2 and another box full of N2.
Statistical mechanics can reliably predict the maximum likely configuration
of this sort of system at time t, t+1...t+n.

A chaotic system can't be modeled this way, because it's sensitive to
initial conditions.  Is there some reason to believe that bubble formation is
not chaotic?

Scott.

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