Is the universe lawful?

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1075-1084

  Calude, Cristian S ^a   Meyerstein, F Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SOLAR SYSTEM;

COMPLEXITY THEORY;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0033140191     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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