I see now why I dont read "terry". It didnt get in the way of my understanding of Random natural selection in fact it has helped me to think I might be relating physics and biology more closely. I want to spend some effort responding to irrefutable Mike so I wanted to indicate something in this thread as I said I would. This is not all.
Weiner writes in "Cybernetics" about the change in physics that thinking about a quasi-erodic hypotheis or ergodicty by Koopman, Von Neumann and Birkoff as if it was an advance from the use implicitly by Gibbs and or as resolved by Lebesque.
The strange crossing of generations seems extremely interesting in that it might present a case where as Gibbs thought two types of averages (time and space) are related. I have begun to wonder in physicists have not abstracted too far by trying to move beyond the simple ergodic hypothesis that all coordinates in a volume can be reached by moving through a phase space.
I am not sure if I understand it correctly but it seemed to possible that a 1-D energy hypersurface was not suspect and so I began to think if biology is not a 1-D energy hypersurface connected by base pairs and their expressions. This lead me to think that biological change is an ergodic system and I wondered if the symbols A and a in Mendel (above and below the line at issue in these plants) do not form
TWO
ergodic paths out of phase. In otherwords this might assist in the problem of multiple alleomorphs that Wright noted by trying to compute the phase average of the alleomorphs...
Anyway the ball of flowers didnt need to put evolution or mendelism in question for me but the explanation such as this seems lacking in the nonevcliterature and i think it is because I still can not tell if collections of flowers inform the measure of it or if it is more physically the other way around despite the physcists move to weaker forms of the hypothesis. Anyway I have not figured out the entropy in this case.
This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 04-13-2005 05:47 PM