54 TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION IN CELLS 



US to use the powerful tools of statistical mechanics to study the macroscopic 

 properties of a control network which involves a large number of coupled 

 non-Hnear oscillators. The emphasis in the work will be upon the ordering of 

 elementary events in time for such a system. In this pursuit we will break 

 some new ground, and the hope is that the analysis will lead to a new theoretical 

 and experimental study of the temporal aspects of cell behaviour in spite of its 

 limitations. The next step in our programme is to construct a statistical 

 mechanics for the control systems which have been defined in this chapter. 

 This forms the content of Chapter 5. 



