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• “SCIENTIST EXPLAINS COMPLEXITY THROUGH THE EXTENSION OF CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS”

Physicist Andrés Trepp-delCarpio determines the range and limitations of classical thermodynamics and finds a way to overcome its restrictions in order to be able to enter into the field of organizative and complex systems and to describe them on the basis of sound and scientifically founded theoretical criteria. With the submission of a unifying and harmonizing thesis puts an end to the current conceptual confusion on the yet ambiguous and mismatched ideas on complexity, complex system, self-organization, deterministic and stochastic chaos, order and disorder, nonlinearity, self-organized criticality, emergency, adaptation, etc. Through his research, he discovers the extensions that classical thermodynamics must experience in order to comprise in its scope of validity exo- and self-organization phenomena and systems of all natural and social sciences, including human experience processes. He achieves this by extending to a broader generality the logic principles that sustain classical science, and the laws of classical thermodynamics. With that, he sets up the universal concepts that allow him to define complex systems and rigorously describe complexity. Among the main results that emerge from the theory developed by him, the following are to be highlighted: the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics for open systems, that governs the reciprocal relationship between positive and negative entropies and determines the finiteness of reversible systems; a more plausible scientific explanation of self-organization, so that the –somewhat forced- idea of self-organized internal criticality losses validity; acknowledgment and description of different classes of order and disorder; disclosure of the interrelational characteristics of component elements of systems as a basis for the emergency of organization; location of complexity between the scopes of stochastics and determinism as a spectral composition of order and disorder; explain evolution in all scopes and in all its versions as organizative processes; the theoretical basis for disorder-order transitions and finally the relocation of physics in the context of science.

An electronic version in PDF of the paper (still in Spanish) “La complejidad explicada por ampliación de la termodinámica clásica al ámbito de la organizatividad” [“Complexity explained by extension of classical thermodynamics to the scope of organizativity”] can be obtained from the author upon request at the following addresses:

ide@aciencias.org.bo a.trepp.dc@aciencias.org.bo treppcen@entelnet.bo

Contribución de: BNAS Communication Unit / Fuente: Interview to Academician Andrés Trepp-delCarpio by Lic. Ana María Pérez / Fecha: 2010-02-08

Enlace: treppcen@entelnet.bo
ide@aciencias.org.bo
a.trepp.dc@aciencias.org.bo