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Great minds think alike! And I think we'll leave off the remainder of that particular aphorism... ;) "Chaos" by James Gleik has some good description of phase space, and the sort of attractors that can arise for different sorts of systems. As well as being a good read from the perspective of anyone interested in the history of science and some of the personalities involved. "The Arrow of Time" by Peter Coveny and Roger Highfield touches on this as well, within the context of arguing that the lack of determinism in these sort of systems and the expansion of the area of uncertainty in phase space as time goes by provide a means of putting the direction of time firmly back in the centre of scientific theory as opposed to treating it as some sort of interpretation of illusion that our consciousness imposes on a time-reversible "fundamental" reality. Both very good reads, scientific enough to give useful insight but still be understandable by non-specialists. -- Shrubbery |
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