{"id":6029,"date":"2021-04-09T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:06:26","slug":"mcsp-presents-order-out-of-chaos-by-dr-linda-reichl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6029","title":{"rendered":"MCSP Presents: Order Out of Chaos by Dr. Linda Reichl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Jack Miller<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Tuesday, April 6, Roanoke College hosted a conversational event within the the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics Conversation (MSCP) Series called \u201cOrder Out of Chaos.\u201d It was led by Dr. Linda Reichl, who has on multiple occasions come to deliver similar conversation series at Roanoke College, particularly to the business department. Reichl began her talk by explaining the new ways over the last few years in which scientists now understand that life could possibly be formed from utter chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reichl then explained to those present about the different methods used alongside the scientific method in the fields of chemistry and physics that have advanced our human understanding of nature. She explained the legacy of leading physicists who had done crucial research in the theory of chaos, starting all the way back with the publications of Newton.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She illustrated the ideas around Chaos Theory with the example of a spinning rod, which uses Newton\u2019s Theory of Motion but turns it on its head, creating a system of movements in which the next move cannot be predicted. This can be applied to planetary motion and is currently being used to further understand our universe. Reichl then introduced many of the Russian chemists throughout recent history that have applied this theoretical framework to practical applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She wrapped the talk up by theorizing that this Theory of Chaos is not simply limited to theoretical dimensions but can be applied to the biological realm as well. Human life, she then said, is possible to be formed out of nothing using these forces of chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MSCP series will be hosting their next talk, titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rise of the Machines <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">presented by Michael McCracken from Washington and Jefferson College, on Tuesday, April 27 from 7 to 8 p.m.\u00a0 All MCSP series talks this semester are being hosted via Zoom, and links to upcoming talks and recordings of past talks can be found on the college\u2019s \u201cMCSP Co-Curricular Activities\u201d website.\u00a0 If you are not a member of the RC community, email rahmoeller@roanoke.edu to request the Zoom links.\u00a0 For more information on the MCSP series, please contact Dr. Maggie Rahmoeller at rahmoeller@roanoke.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jack Miller Last Tuesday, April 6, Roanoke College hosted a conversational event within the the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics Conversation (MSCP) Series called \u201cOrder Out of Chaos.\u201d It was led by Dr. Linda Reichl, who has on multiple occasions come to deliver similar conversation series at Roanoke College, particularly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/chaos.jpg-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}