Chaos and Strange Attractors
Chaos and Strange Attractors
Since Leonardo da Vinci first pondered the branching of tree limbs and roots, the turbulence of water and clouds, chaos has come a long way...theoretically.
The word "Chaoscope" was invented by Ralph Abraham to describe computer tools used to help comprehending dynamic systems, a superset of the strange attractors.
Chaos theory, in mathematics and physics, deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos, most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly effect). Examples of such systems include the atmosphere, the solar system, plate tectonics, turbulent fluids, economies, and population growth.
Systems that exhibit mathematical chaos are deterministic and thus orderly in some sense; this technical use of the word chaos is at odds with common parlance, which suggests complete disorder. See the article on chaos for a discussion of the origin of the word in mythology, and other uses. When we say that chaos theory studies deterministic systems, it is necessary to mention a related field of physics called quantum chaos theory that studies non-deterministic systems following the laws of quantum mechanics.
I love the smell of chaos in the morning...
posted by Indigobusiness @ Saturday, December 31, 2005
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I love the device of Jesus giving GWB a whap. Thanks.
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