Chaos

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Chaos theroy is a hot topic in the physics/math world right now, and new research is popping up all the time. I personally find it fascinating (I get to go to Indianapolis in May to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair for my project on Chaotic circuits)

Basically, the concept can be described as the "Butterfly Effect" where tiny differences (like the difference between 1.00000000000000000000001 and 1) cause calculations to be thrown off totally as a system progresses. Its chaos that prevents accurate weather predictions for long term situations.

I was wondering if any one else is aquainted with the theory.

Scorpio

I certainly have heard of it a number of times
But i am afraid, that i am not personally acquainted with it

Hope to learn more about this in the foreseeable future

4ndY

eh, im concluding my high-school education and i've taken Brownian motions for my graduate work (dont know how is that working in other countries, but in my country all who wants graduate must write graduate/matural work). Now im studying mathematical model of brownian motion, which includes: chaos theory and fractals... Im pretty n00b in that domain Sad

but it sounds very interesting.
So far I somehow understoot butterfly effect (sensitivity to initial conditions) and random walker, but still having trouble with Lorenz attractor :-/

I have less then month to finish that work, and all is still cloudy Sad

skaccomatto

In the metaphysical sense, chaos it is the opposite of law and order... even if someone will think different!

4ndY

ocalhoun

I figure it's only out there to make things sound better.
That way scientists can replace "we don't know" with "the chaos theory states that it is impossible to know".
Therefore, the scientists appear far more knowledgeable.

polarBear

Real chaos theory, not pseudoscientific knowledge or mere opinion on it, is concretely usable for stuff that would be WAY too complex to grab with another approach. Stuff like meteorology,attractors, fluid dynamics, fractals, ato a minor degree distribution logistics and networking rely on several principles of the chaos theory as well.

Just for fun, check levitated.net. His attractors, meshes, entities and his walking bugs are a good example of this. They are all computational analysis entities, though they are built using some fun concepts of the chaos theory on their daily life (they walk around, interact and change along with time, so, along with the fact that they are composed by small functional cells, we could punch the word life somewhere in there).

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