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20 June 2026

  • curprev 10:1710:17, 20 June 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 445 bytes −1,057 Classic examples include Bénard convection cells (ordered hexagonal flow patterns arising in a fluid layer heated from below), the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (chemical oscillations producing traveling waves), and — most consequentially — life itself. Every living organism is a dissipative structure: a metabolically maintained island of low entropy sustained by a continuous throughput of free energy.

12 April 2026