To: TigersEye; All
OK, I see your point. How about if I said a chaotic system is a system in precarious balance a non-chaotic system has an entrenched (for lack of a better word) balance?
That sounds like a perfectly good qualitative description - it captures the essence!
To: E8crossE8
Thank you. I was just looking for a way to put it in layman’s terms. I loaned out my Physics for Dummies book and never got it back. ;^)
18 posted on
09/09/2010 10:17:00 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
To: E8crossE8
Excellent description of chaos.
The only thing that I’ll add is that in a chaotic system, after your “nudge”, the tiniest change in the initial conditions:
is extremely likely to result in the system at a relatively short, later time appearing very different from what the system would have appeared without the “nudge”.
19 posted on
09/10/2010 4:26:39 PM PDT by
AFPhys
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