To: js1138
That's correct. However, cannot carry these out indefinitely. Two problems, one due to the Lyapanov exponent causing indefinite error growth (what I think you mean) and another to the impossibility of getting initial contidions exactly due to Brownian motion. (Not to mention QM uncertainties.)
I would claim that classical physics isn't deterministic, primarily because tiny measuring instruments undergo Brownian motion limiting their precision. QM non-determinism is of a different kind.
1,000 posted on
02/26/2003 9:20:57 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
1001=7*11*13
1,001 posted on
02/26/2003 9:24:33 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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