are the same. This assumption--that it is as good to simulate a system for long as it is to make many independent realizations of the same system--is not always correct. (See, for example, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou experiment of 1953.)

Assumption of the ergodic hypothesis allows proof that certain types of perpetual motion machines of the second kind are impossible.

Systems that are ergodic are said to have the property of ergodicity;

1.Previous
3.Next