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RE: Noise-free Complex Systems

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Noise-free Complex Systems
• From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@s...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:52:41 -0600
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• Thread-topic: Noise-free Complex Systems

Bullard, Claude L (Len) <mailto:clbullar@i...> asks:

> A troll of sorts but with a serious core:
> 
> Is this possible:
> 
> Can a system or a system of systems be both 
> complex and noise free?  What must be true 
> of all of the components of the system for 
> this to be the case?  By what properties 
> can one measure this?  Are there complex 
> systems that can not under any circumstances 
> be noise free (beyond XML-Dev itself before 
> the deconstructionists flame on)?

Well, if I recall correctly, from a thermodynamics point of view no
system can be noise free.  The qualification might be unless it is in
absolute equilibrium (though there is not such thing in reality), but
then that sort of implies your system wouldn't be doing anything.

In-other-words, I'd bet that Shannon would say no....

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