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To: Elsie
I guess that's why Brownian movement has a certain direction to it.

Actually it does. If you track the movement of an individual dust mote, for example (the iconic example of Brownian motion) and plot the distance from its point of origin over time, the distance will increase.

Variation and selection present a special case, in which some changes are favored. If you study a system in which small random motions occur, and a ratchet mechanism blocks retrograde motion, you get effective motion away from the point of origin.

1,686 posted on 09/22/2008 11:30:11 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
If you track the movement of an individual dust mote, for example (the iconic example of Brownian motion) and plot the distance from its point of origin over time, the distance will increase.

Maxwell; methinks thou art demon posessed!

1,693 posted on 09/22/2008 1:15:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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