So, can someone please explain chaos theory? In a non wikipedia way?

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Basically, it's the belief that a butterfly can flap its wings in Kansas and the resulting effect can cause a tsunami somewhere else in the world.

The other name for chaos theory is the "butterfly effect," yes, the same name for that stupid movie with Ashton Kutcher.  The movie is not a proper representation, though.

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Post edited at 6:20 pm on Oct. 3, 2008 by HeartofJuyoMk2

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It's the mathematical belief that anything in the world can cause a reaction somewhere else.

Basically, it's the belief that a butterfly can flap its wings in Kansas and the resulting effect can cause a tsunami somewhere else in the world.

The other name for chaos theory is the "butterfly effect," yes, the same name for that stupid movie with Ashton Kutcher. The movie is not a proper representation, though.

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This basically.

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In Mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems - that is, systems whose state evolves with time - that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.

Chaotic behavior is also observed in natural systems, such as the weather. This may be explained by a chaos-theoretical analysis of a mathematical model of such a system, embodying the laws of physics that are relevant for the natural system.

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In Mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems - that is, systems whose state evolves with time - that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.

Chaotic behavior is also observed in natural systems, such as the weather. This may be explained by a chaos-theoretical analysis of a mathematical model of such a system, embodying the laws of physics that are relevant for the natural system.

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I traded in my science books for Theology/Philosophy books, and Wikipedia seems to suffice.

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Quote: from fenrir at 9:30 pm on Oct. 3, 2008

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In Mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems - that is, systems whose state evolves with time - that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.  

 Chaotic behavior is also observed in natural systems, such as the weather. This may be explained by a chaos-theoretical analysis of a mathematical model of such a system, embodying the laws of physics that are relevant for the natural system.

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I traded in my science books for Theology/Philosophy books, and Wikipedia seems to suffice.

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I think he wanted a non-Wiki explanation because he couldn't understand the Wiki explanation.

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Quote: from fenrir at 9:30 pm on Oct. 3, 2008

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In Mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems - that is, systems whose state evolves with time - that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.  

 Chaotic behavior is also observed in natural systems, such as the weather. This may be explained by a chaos-theoretical analysis of a mathematical model of such a system, embodying the laws of physics that are relevant for the natural system.

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I traded in my science books for Theology/Philosophy books, and Wikipedia seems to suffice.

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I think he wanted a non-Wiki explanation because he couldn't understand the Wiki explanation.

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Actualy, I can understand wikipedia explanations  . I just hate people quoting wiki, cause they usually leave in all the numbers and brackets. But thanks anyway, now I get it

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Imagine you're a physics professor, you don't know it, but today you're randomly going to have a moment of eureka and get on course to solving the compatibility problem with relativity and quantum.

You're lecturing your class, and a really hot young student drops her pencil and bends down to get it all innocent but provocative like, and you fucking pop a boner right there in front of everyone.

You run out of class and are so humiliated you don't come up with that compatibility theory for relativity and quantum, all because a girl picked up her pencil.

Hot girls change the world.

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Ok it's simple.

Imagine you're a physics professor, you don't know it, but today you're randomly going to have a moment of eureka and get on course to solving the compatibility problem with relativity and quantum.

You're lecturing your class, and a really hot young student drops her pencil and bends down to get it all innocent but provocative like, and you fucking pop a boner right there in front of everyone.

You run out of class and are so humiliated you don't come up with that compatibility theory for relativity and quantum, all because a girl picked up her pencil.

Hot girls change the world.

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Quote: from medjai at 5:30 pm on Oct. 4, 2008

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Ok it's simple.  

 Imagine you're a physics professor, you don't know it, but today you're randomly going to have a moment of eureka and get on course to solving the compatibility problem with relativity and quantum.  

 You're lecturing your class, and a really hot young student drops her pencil and bends down to get it all innocent but provocative like, and you fucking pop a boner right there in front of everyone.  

 You run out of class and are so humiliated you don't come up with that compatibility theory for relativity and quantum, all because a girl picked up her pencil.  

 Hot girls change the world.

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Which you've also explained how one person's choice to maintain physical attractiveness causes typical reactions from others in a form of attraction (i.e. straight males and bi/gay women), but how exactly does having a boner mean anything beyond a simply causal link of attraction? I highly doubt we'd compare choice-consequence carelessly whenever going beyond primal desires of lustful intentions.

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Hahaha, that made me laugh.  

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