the.com/chaos theory
the flap of a butterfly's wings can rewrite next month's weather, and math finally admits it.
means the study of how simple deterministic systems become wildly unpredictable because tiny differences in starting conditions snowball over time.
from born in 1961 when meteorologist edward lorenz reran a weather simulation with a rounded input, 0.506 instead of 0.506127, and got a totally different forecast, revealing that small errors compound catastrophically.
butterfly effectlorenz's own 1972 conference talk title, half-joking
deterministic, not randomthe equations are exact, the outcomes still unpredictable
strange attractorschaotic systems still trace hauntingly ordered shapes
three-body problempoincare found chaos there back in 1889
for instance
lorenz weather model — 1963 paper that started it all, mit
double pendulum — two arms, infinite unpredictable swings, any physics classroom
jurassic park speech — 1993 film, malcolm explains chaos with water on a hand
stock market crashes — tiny trades cascading into 2010 flash crash