Were dissipative structures discovered or invented by Prigogine?
Discovered
Invented
Neither, they were theorized
They were predicted
Answer
Dissipative structures are not physical objects that can be discovered or invented. They are theoretical models that describe how systems can spontaneously organize themselves into complex patterns. Prigogine proposed Theory of dissipative structures in the 1960s, and it has since been used to explain a wide variety of phenomena, such as the formation of snowflakes and the growth of bacterial colonies.
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