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To: RadioAstronomer
No. Forget that, here's something more scintillating

The equations for this system also seemed to give rise to entirely random behavior. However, when he graphed it, a surprising thing happened. The output always stayed on a curve, a double spiral. There were only two kinds of order previously known: a steady state, in which the variables never change, and periodic behavior, in which the system goes into a loop, repeating itself indefinitely. Lorenz's equations were definitely ordered - they always followed a spiral. They never settled down to a single point, but since they never repeated the same thing, they weren't periodic either. He called the image he got when he graphed the equations the Lorenz attractor

871 posted on 12/21/2004 10:26:08 AM PST by D Edmund Joaquin (Karenga says Kwanzaa is an "oppositional alternative" to Christianity - which he calls "spookism")
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To: D Edmund Joaquin

For the lurkers, here is the website you are copying from:

http://library.thinkquest.org/3120/text/c-his1.htm

Actually, chaos theory is pretty cool stuff.


874 posted on 12/21/2004 10:31:21 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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