chaos theory..what do you know about it?

Question

and can u explain for me the butterfly effect?

Answer 1

In a nutshell.. the butterfly effect proposes that the flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world say for examle the unitedstates, could cause a tornado to occur in another part of the world for example Europe. So one extremely small event could cause something majorly catastrophic to happen. I believe this was first discovered with sizemographs and earthquake patterns. It's not a fact, just theory, but there is a lot to support it. So chaos theory basically says that any organized system is prone to collapse or fall apart because chaos will eventually be introduced into it. Like in the movie Jurassic park there was a scientist played by Jeff Goldblume who was constantly trying to convince the owner of the island that eventually all the dinosaurs would escape or something bad would happen because of chaos. He was all into chaos theory.. and lo and behold he was right. Ofcourse that's just a movie, but chaos theory applies much to real life.

Answer 2

What exactly is chaos? The name "chaos theory" comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data.
When was chaos first discovered? The first true experimenter in chaos was a meteorologist, named Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he was working on the problem of weather prediction. He had a computer set up, with a set of twelve equations to model the weather. It didn't predict the weather itself. However this computer program did theoretically predict what the weather might be.

One day in 1961, he wanted to see a particular sequence again. To save time, he started in the middle of the sequence, instead of the beginning. He entered the number off his printout and left to let it run.

When he came back an hour later, the sequence had evolved differently. Instead of the same pattern as before, it diverged from the pattern, ending up wildly different from the original. (See figure 1.) Eventually he figured out what happened. The computer stored the numbers to six decimal places in its memory. To save paper, he only had it print out three decimal places. In the original sequence, the number was .506127, and he had only typed the first three digits, .506
TO SEE figure 1. go to this source site

Answer 3

In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that under certain conditions exhibit a phenomenon known as chaos. Among the characteristics of chaotic systems, described below, is a sensitivity to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, the behavior of systems that exhibit chaos appears to be random, even though the system is deterministic in the sense that it is well defined and contains no random parameters. Examples of such systems include the atmosphere, the solar system, plate tectonics, turbulent fluids, economics, and population growth.

Systems that exhibit mathematical chaos are deterministic and thus orderly in some sense; this technical use of the word chaos is at odds with common parlance, which suggests complete disorder. (See the article on mythological chaos for a discussion of the origin of the word in mythology, and other uses.) A related field of physics called quantum chaos theory studies non-deterministic systems that follow the laws of quantum mechanics.

Answer 4

completely deterministic process sometimes cannot be predicted.

It's one of the most succesfull parts of physics of the past two decades. (it also has good applications in other fields.)

The butterfly effect is a strong depedance on initial settings/conditions/.... meaning: if a very small thing changes (like a butterfly in China lifts off), it could have grand effects (for instance a storm above LA) in a chaotic system (such as the weather).

Answer 5

The Earth's weather is part of the chaos system.
Weathermen can always predict what the weather will be like, say 5 days later. However, it is the little variation in the weather in a particular day that will affect the weather days later. This is why weathermen can never be accurate all the time.

Answer 6

One small thing can effect another causing a chain reaction. When a butterfly flaps its wings, there will be a hurricane in the other side of the earth

Answer 7

i know nothing about it