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"   WHERE CHAOS BEGINS, classical science stops. For as long as the world has had physicists inquiring into the laws of nature, it has suffered a special ignorance about disorder in the atmosphere, in the turbulent sea, in the fluctuations of wildlife populations, in the oscillations of the heart and the brain. The irregular side of nature, the discontinuous and erratic side---these have been puzzles to science, or worse, monstrosities...

 ...Only a new kind of science could begin to cross the great gulf between knowledge of what one thing does---one water molecule, one cell of heart tissue, one neuron--- and what millions of them do..."


Divergence. --James Gleick, Chaos








And it's beautiful.      CHAOS! THE WORLD IS FULL OF IT. It's twisted and tangled, but it's an organizing principle. It's a contradiction in terms, but so's the rest of reality. It's in us, and in everything. From the puffs of dust swirling in your room, to the galactic dust swirling around us in space. It's what Newton didn't see, and is only now being explored. It's the nature of the universe!



     Alright, this is just the briefest little overview of chaos theory. I'm no expert, but I do find it fascinating so I thought I'd share. If you'd like to know more [*gasp!*] by the end, read the book up there, by James Gleik - trust me, you almost forget it's not fiction. (it's a FANTASTIC read, given to me by a professor I had a seminar with, Professor Stent [thank you!]. He gives you a whole new perspective).




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"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order --and yet deep inside the chaos lurks an eerier type of order."

--Douglas Hofstadter