{"id":789,"date":"2008-03-20T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2008\/03\/20\/murray-gell-mann-a-pardee-distinguished-lecture-2\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T19:56:52","slug":"murray-gell-mann-a-pardee-distinguished-lecture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2008\/03\/20\/murray-gell-mann-a-pardee-distinguished-lecture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray Gell-Mann | A Pardee Distinguished Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment787\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/news-cms\/photos\/mann1.jpg\" alt=\"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Murray Gell-Mann<\/strong><strong> on Regularities and Randomness in the Past and the Future (Part One)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann introduces the concept of complexity and explains how a relatively large number of individual components interact to form regularities, which may come to form a complex system. The concept of &ldquo;effective complexity&rdquo; is also introduced, as exemplified by quantum physics, and it is pointed out that fundamental laws of physics are probabilistic, not deterministic.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gell-Mann explains how theories of complexity can be applied to the social sciences.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/\/professors\/murray-gell-mann\/\">More on Murray Gell-Mann<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Frederick S. Pardee Visiting Professor Murray Gell-Mann introduces the concept of complexity and explains how a relatively large number of individual components interact to form regularities, which may come to form a complex system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[325,84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}