[samtheman]

I know I don’t know what the word (chaos) means, not in the context of this article. I don’t think it means entropy... can anybody clear this up?

What is the “chaos” being discussed here?

[TigersEye]

Seven years ago Northwestern University physicist Adilson E. Motter conjectured that the expansion of the universe at the time of the big bang was highly chaotic. Now he and a colleague have proven it using rigorous mathematical arguments.

In all seriousness I found those two statements to be contradictory. When I think of the word 'chaos' I don't even see entropy as a synonym as even the breaking down of an ordered system has a certain order to it. Chaos means to me no order whatsoever.

So how could something as perfectly ordered as a rigorous mathematical argument describe total disorder? Wouldn't all mathematical equations, even the simplest, fail to apply to true chaos by the very nature of those opposing concepts? I missed the boat here.

[sadponies]

My guess is white noise. like when you put the tv on channel 3.