The Ring of Brownian Motion: the good, the bad and the simply silly

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  • Peter Hanggi
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In this plenary talk I give an account on the blossoming role that Brownian motion Theory and Experiment played and still keeps doing so in germinating and advancing several, partially diverse physical disciplines. Although the use of Brownian motion concepts generally most favorably impacted those scientific areas there are also some abuses where the application of such concepts may not describe satisfactorily physical reality.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009