Brownian motion and microscopic chaos

Detlef Dürr () and Herbert Spohn ()
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Detlef Dürr: Universität München, and Herbert Spohn is in the Centre for Mathematics, Technische Universität München
Herbert Spohn: Universität München, and Herbert Spohn is in the Centre for Mathematics, Technische Universität München

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6696, 831-833

Abstract: Nearly a century after Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion, we are still learning from the phenomenon. New measurements of the position of a colloidal particle suspended in water provide direct evidence of microscopic chaotic dynamics in the fluid. Oddly, this strengthens our conviction that chaos underlies the smooth behaviour of matter on large scales.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/29650

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