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The Chaos Theory

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IrishDrink87
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Do you believe in it? I do understand that it is scinetific and mathmatical non-fiction, but i also know that many people dont agree or believe in it.

to sum it up, the most popular theory is the butterfly effect:
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)

Im just curious, just like all other questions of the sort. I want to know your opinions on the matter.





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Jul 28 2004 12:58AM
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Snubluck
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I'd like an invite into this theory cult, it sounds interesting to me.

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no i figured it out when he over shot the bowl and shit on the back of the toilet. then he signed my beanie.-Hoodratz47 in response to being in the same public bathroom with mike wilson
Jul 29 2004 9:06PM
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Prins
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interesting, I always thought they gave the hi and low temps so that we knew how Hot and Cold it would get in a day... Not because of the chaos theory. You're truly enlightened.

The chaos theory is bunk because when you try to explain why the chaos theory truly exists you will realize/discover the causes for the outlying effect. If you wish to use a human example and talk about studying for a test (which is a ridiculous example) it wasn't chaos theory that caused the changes, it was his choice to not study.

Here is a question, if you understood how the entire world and universe worked, what difference would it make on your daily life? Would it even be worth your time? I used to think so but increasingly I'm believing it isn't and am investing my time into things that matter.
Jul 30 2004 4:43PM
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punk_rider
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do not believe. just another way to make people think that maybe what happens is not their fault!
Jul 30 2004 4:56PM
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squeakywaffle
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221 said what I was going to write myself...

'Chaos theory' is just a cop-out for people who don't understand some of the stranger (but still proven) laws of physics. It turns out that space is quantized (there is a minimum measurement of length, a cap on the complexity of the universe), so there is no 'chaos'... there's actually a cause for everything. Sure, a butterfly can flap it's wings and cause a hurricane... that's not 'chaos'. There's an obvious cause and a valid effect- the butterfly's flap was the final straw on the donkey's back. If we could build a computer capable of simulating the universe, we would see that concrete mathematical laws govern this effect, and not 'chaos'.

The problem comes from the uncertainty principle- by observing a particle, we will always alter its state, so we could never actually build a correct model to predict the future, even if we had a computer capable of simulating the entire universe (which is impossible anyway, because we would need a space the size of the universe to process that much information).
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Jul 30 2004 5:17PM
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