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Transport properties

Transport properties

Roll over, Boltzmann

29 May 2014
Taken from the May 2014 issue of Physics World

To many physicists, “Tsallis entropy” has been a revolution in statistical mechanics. To others, it is merely a useful fitting technique. Jon Cartwright tries to make sense of this world of disorder.

Roll over, Boltzmann
Physics may aim for simplicity, yet the world it describes is a mess. There is disorder wherever we

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Jon Cartwright is a freelance journalist based in Bristol, UK, http://jcartwright.co.uk
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