Session H2: Biological and Chemical Physics

10:30 AM–12:06 PM, Saturday, October 18, 2008
Union East, 3rd Floor - Templeton

Chair: Karine Chesnel, Brigham Young University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.TS4CF.H2.1

Abstract: H2.00001 : Emergence and Evolution of Order in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems

10:30 AM–10:54 AM

Preview Abstract

Author:

  Harry Swinney
    (University of Texas at Austin)

Do the Great Red Spot of Jupiter and the spirals in a frog egg have anything in common? The sizes are vastly different and the biology of even a simple frog egg is far more complicated than the physics of a fluid. Yet the patterns formed in such systems, differing widely in scale and in the underlying molecular mechanisms, can in many cases be understood from a common approach.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2008.TS4CF.H2.1