What is Chaos theory?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
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Don't know yet, but lots of wild theories and mathematical approaches being tried (some, via\nhttp://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=4%208%2015%2016%2023%2042):\n\nhttp://www.d.kth.se/~dicander/lost.html\n\nhttp://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
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Math is the language of science.  \n\nAnd yes, math can be used to describe random events.  Chaos Theory, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory\n\nAnd... math is the language of Physics as well.  Ask any physicist and they will tell you that.  I'm married to one.
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Plate tectonics (from the Greek word for "one who constructs and destroys", τεκτων, tektōn) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers: the lithosphere comprising the crust and the solidified uppermost part of the mantle. Below the lithosphere lies the asthenosphere which comprises the inner viscous part of the mantle. The mantle behaves like a superheated and extremely viscous liquid.
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There are randomness in independent events. But there is no randomness in a set of data. Chaos theory suggests that every random or chaotic set of data is actually in some order. If you are trying to pick a bead from a bag that contains 6 different colors of beads, you can say that the color you pick is random. But if you do it 100 times, then you can say that there is an order and the set of data is not completely random.
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Actually, Charles Darwin discredited his own theory before his death, but few evolutionists recognize this fact.  Also, according to the second law of thermodynamics and a little thing called entropy, it is scientifically proven that all things move towards chaos.  Evolution suggests that we went from chaos to order, when, in reality, everything moves from order to chaos (for example, a fire causing wood to turn to ashes).  Personally, I have yet to find a scientific fact that disproves creationism.  Remember, science is simply man's way of explaining God's works.
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Do an internet search using quotes for "The Chaos Theory".  You can also find info at this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
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The theory of emergent properties is a theory that states that in systems that are sufficiently complex, properties emerge that can not be reduced to the constituent elements of the system. In other words "the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts". \n\nIf that is correct,I would guess the correct answer is A.
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Interesting. I vaguely remember a "great attractor" from chaos theory, but what I find when I look it up now is that it refers to a cluster of galaxies, "in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra" where nobody is sure why they're grouped like that.\n\nHere's a direct quote from another source though which I think directly addresses what you're asking about: The galaxy rotational problem refers to the phenomenon of the descrepency between the observed rotational motion of the matter of the galactic disc from the predictions of Newtonian dynamics. (See links below and search for "12.25.I".)\n\nI think in layman's terms what they're boggling about is the "bar" shape that occurs in most galaxies, our own apparently included. A recent issue of Scientific American had a very good theory on how that occurs and why.\n\nIf I'm getting the gist of it right, they're not sure why clusters of stars occur in a semi-pinwheel pattern, since based on observed mass there simply isn't enough to cause such a structure to form or remain stable.  The theory in SciAm had something to do with a coincidence of travelling wave patterns rather than any deep dark mysteries of physics, filiments, or anything else.\n\nSee http://www.sciam.com/, October 2005 issue, p. 43, "Ripples in a Galactic Pond." Very nice article and they explained it more clearly than anything I could put together.
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This is the "if things are always meant to go to greater entropy, how can random molecumels reverse entropy and become organized" argument, right?  Ok-If you really thought that nothing could go from a state of disorganization to a state of organization, THEN you would have a good reason not to clean your room, stack the dishes neatly, build a house from a pile of bricks, etc etc.  Obviously, things can go from a state of disorganization to a state of organization-it happens constantly, all the time.  First, the law is involved in closed systems, where there is a set amount of energy-Clearly, Earth gets a whole whopping amount of energy every day, or everything WOULD fall apart.  But even in a local sense, life and evolution DO increase entropy, just like building a house from a pile of bricks does.  The equation is one of energy usage as well as organization.  The energy that turns into waste heat (maximum entropy) in the process of building a house, or building an animal, is greater than the organization that results from that energy.  So, you have to generate a lot of waste heat to get a little organization, and even in this small system you have increased entropy-Surely you can feel it that the energy to do the dishes is *way* more than the resultant organized dishes...  Evolution has used up an enormous amount of energy, and increased entropy-and the only way it can work is that it gets a constant large infusion of new energy all the time, from the sun (or geothermal processes in the case of deep sea extremophiles)- In a very real sense, life is ac extremely wasteful proposition, like the worst chronic shoppaholic-but its ok for the shopaholic, if they are given a billion dollars a day to do it.
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Chaos- from the Greek implies utter confusion, lack  of  order or orgazination...How  about  an Epiphany ?
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This is not an either/or situation.  The Universe as seen by physics is a trend for ordered sub-systems to become more chaotic over time.  This is the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states "The entropy of an isolated system not at equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value."  However NO sub-system is ever really isolated.\n\nLiving systems tend to reverse the "normal flow" toward higher entropy.  One might say that life runs counter to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  Living systems tend to induce order to random elements of the Universe over time.\n\nThe best answer to your question is that the Universe is both Ordered and Chaotic, depending upon what localized portion of the space-time continuum one is observing.
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I'm not sure what you are looking for but I will have a stab at it.\n1.A butterfly chain is a piece of jewellery the second two links will tell you more with pictures.\n2.If you mean the butterfly effect, it is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.
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I think I'm probably the most qualified person to answer this.  I love everything about chaos.  I love the uncertainty it brings, I would have my life be chaotic any day of the week than be forced into the same thing day in and day out.  Chaos is the source of all creation according to Greek mythology.  From Chaos comes all things, even order.  Chaos magick is using whatever paradigm you want to to get the results you desire.  The chaos theory is that for some unexplainable reason in scientific experiments that play out over and over again something unexpected will eventually happen for no explainable reason.  People often say that they hate chaos in their lives, but without chaos things would be 100 percent predictable 100 percent of the time.  How boring would that be?  In conclusion, chaos is the unexpected that happens for the good, for the bad, and just because.
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Chaos theory dictates that if the whole world was christian, then a new religion would emerge.  being christian is believing that the "phone game" about god has been true for over 6000 years.  Silly if you ask me.  It is a simple concept that is learned in American Kindergarten.  The phone game lies in as little as 30 seconds... well there are a lot of seconds in 6000 years, and you treat the bible as historical fact?  Who is the non-believer now?
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the most widely acceted theory is the bing bang theory \nthere is also one "statis state theory" but it has a lot of discrepancies\n\n\n4 more info:\n\nhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978prpl.conf..399R\n\nhttp://www.gitamrta.org/bigbang.htm\n\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bb1.html
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Well, this was one aspect of my research thesis in Physics of about 10 years ago. The big picture is quite wide, so let's focus on a particular property of classical thermodynamics that is challenged by the chaotic behavior of certain systems: the equipartition of energy.\nClassical thermodynamics tells us that, providing enough time, a system goes to equipartition, i.e. its energy is apportioned in equal parts along all the degrees of freedom. It is well known that the equipartition law has been disproved by quantum mechanics, but until some years ago it was believed a necessary consequence of classical mechanics.\nThe news is that the recent studies (including my little contribution) have shown that there are certain systems for which, under given conditions, neither classical mechanics prescribe the equipartition of energy.\nA class of such systems is constituted by the nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices, that is, N-dimensional spring/mass chains with nonlinear springs. To make it simple, consider that some solid gasses have their atoms stuffed in crystals that can be modeled as such lattices.\nThese systems are classified as chaotic (or also stochastic) for mathematical reasons too complex to be explained here.\nSuppose you freeze Helium at the point that it solidifies. Then you have such a crystal. Its degrees of freedom are the harmonic modes of oscillation of the crystal (just like the harmonic sounds in a guitar string). From the equipartition law one should expect that, after waiting some time, all harmonics go to the same energy. But this is not the case: most energy remains instead concentrated in the lower harmonics. The effect is stronger as the temperature decreases.\nObviously these results are mainly obtained thanks to computer simulations, because the involved equations have no analytic solution.\nSurprisingly, some of these results match with the prediction of quantum mechanics. This is clearly a debated issue but it suggests anyway that the "old-fashioned" classical mechanics has still something to say in modern physics!\n\nLater addition (in relation to the "Additional Details" above): yes, of course I'm speaking of deterministic chaos here, in the mathematical sense (thought it was obvious).