[D Edmund Joaquin]

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

[RadioAstronomer]

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.