Chapter 10

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics, Biological Systems and Time-Arrow

Jacques Ricard

Abstract

The concept of time-arrow does not appear frequently in physics. This is not the case for the study of biochemical systems as many of them are able to sense whether a variable is increasing or decreasing. This effect can be explained by the non-linear character of the system and its dynamics.

Total Pages: 184-195 (12)

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