ABSTRACT

Contemporary physics has redirected most of its research atten­ tion to high-energy particles . This focus puts the frontier of re­ search in physics beyond the realm of comprehension for most people . High-energy particles cannot be seen with the human eye and have no direct connection to daily life. Meanwhile, many simple things that we can observe cannot be statistically ex­ plained. For instance, such phenomena as the turbulence of flu­ ids, the fluctuating intensity of lasers , some chemical reactions , and cardiac rhythms and arrhythmias, are only poorly under­ stood; or simple figures we see with our naked eyes in day-to-day life, such as the shapes of clouds, or mountains, or coast lines, are never seriously measured and studied. To avoid facing these awkward and difficult tasks, scientists think of them as irregulari­ ties full of randomness and assert that few meaningful results can be learned from them.