Many times the results of a dry technocratic experiment in the field of physics stimulate thought and feed it with new ideas. The results of the experiment, published in the journal Solitons and Fractals of Chaos, show that the type of noise, complex random telegraph noise (RTN-Random Telegraph Noise), which occurs in the newest of the four electrical elements, the memristor (explored at the nanoscale), is actually not by chance.

Chance is unpredictability, a world of grains of sand in a whirlpool of liquid, the action of the individual in the social whole. The imposition of the law on randomness creates a macroscopic regularity, but the unit continues to operate within the framework of its randomness and the unpredictability of its choice.

But is it so or is the system arbitrarily chaotic and we choose some of the set of initial conditions and act on them? A good approach to reasoning would be to experiment with our own history, with our own choices, and answer whether random is random. The entropy approach remains macroscopic, and according to it, randomness is a consequence of the many options available. Thus, a grain of sand inside a fluid vortex will obey the laws of nonlinear dynamics, where sensitivity to initial conditions is hidden behind a mask of randomness. But hidden laws exist and manifest themselves thanks to the trajectories of strange attractors, which, like the cosmic trajectories of unrequited lovers, are looking in vain for intersections.

The results of the experiment showed that the recorded temporal evolution of a natural value, if considered from the point of view of the dimension of the variable itself, looks like a random sequence of values. But when viewed from a higher dimension, there is a wonderful fractal structure, an imprint of causality, which mockingly hides from our eyes and waits for us to transcend it, rise one, two or more dimensions in order to reveal our wealth.

But what evidence does this revelation have? Random, unconnected events in Politics, in Economics, in our personal lives, when viewed without passion, dogma and the impulse of linearity, will reveal correlations, laws, causal relationships that only non-linear dynamics can reveal. Moreover, the fractal structure, hidden behind seeming randomness, allows us to move from our microcosm to the macrocosm and meet the same patterns, the same from one city, one province, one country, one continent. In addition, this fractal structure expands over time. Historical events based on chance, when viewed through the prism of non-linear dynamics, will lead to the conclusion that what happens in one period of time is a reflection of what happened in a previous period of time. Thus, events are not the product of random or simple probabilities, but are the repetition of the same patterns each time on a different scale.

This should not be connected with the fate of prejudices, because again, non-linear dynamics give us a way out of failures, missed opportunities even at a small level of our personal life, reminding us of sensitivity to initial conditions in order to do great things. change, new beginning. In any case, the fractals are not quite similar to each other. Therefore, physics studies the “random” from a different point of view, pushes back the veil, exposes the actors of the “random” spectacle. What’s left? Find a director or directors.

* Michael Hanias, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, International University of Greece, Chairman of the Scientific Supervisory Board of the Experimental and Standard Schools of Mainland Greece