The Chaos Theory

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The Chaos Theory

The Chaos Theory

        Where Chaos begins, classical science ends.   Ever since physicists have
inquired into the laws of nature, the have not begun to explore irregular side
of nature, the erratic and discontinuous side, that have always puzzled
scientists.   They did not attempt to understand disorder in the atmosphere, the
turbulent sea, the oscillations of the heart and brain, and the fluctuations of
wildlife populations.   All of these things were taken for granted until in the
1970's some American and European scientists began to investigate the randomness
of nature.
     They were physicists, biologists, chemists and mathematicians but they
were all seeking one thing: connections between different kinds of irregularity.
"Physiologists found a surprising order in the chaos that develops in the human
heart, the prime cause of a sudden, unexplained death.   Ecologists explored the
rise and fall of gypsy moth populations.   Economists dug out old stock price
data and tried a new kind of analysis.   The insights that emerged led directly
into the natural world- the shapes of clouds, the paths of lightning, the
microscopic intertwining of blood vessels, the galactic clustering of stars."
(Gleick, 1987)
        The man most responsible for coming up with the Chaos Theory was
Mitchell Feigenbaum, who was one of a handful of scientists at Los Alamos, New
Mexico when he first started thinking about Chaos.   Feigenbaum was a little
known scientist from New York, with only one published work to his name.   He
was working on nothing very important, like quasi periodicity, in which he and
only he had 26 hour days instead of the usual 24.   He gave that up because he
could not bear to wake up to setting sun, which happened periodically.   He
spent most of time watching clouds from the hiking trails above the laboratory.
To him could represented a side of nature that the mainstream of physics had
passed by, a side that was fuzzy and detailed, and structured yet unpredictable.
He thought about these things quietly, without producing any work.
     After he started looking, chaos seemed to be everywhere.   A flag snaps
back and forth in the wind.   A dripping faucet changes from a steady pattern to
a random one.   A rising column of smoke disappears into random swirls.   "Chaos
breaks across the lines that separate scientific disciplines.   Because it is a
science of the global nature of systems, it has brought together thinkers from
fields that have b...

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