Summary
Dissipative processes can provoke the appearance of bifurcation in autonomous nonlinear differential equations, generating an indeterminacy in the physical system. We show that in such a case this indeterminacy exists in the early cosmos.
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A previous version of this paper was presented at the Marrccl Grossman Meeting, Shangai, 1982.