What is the chaos theory???How does it relate to our everyday lives???

Answer 1

Putting it simplisticly the chaos theory is that all events on earth even though seemingly random are all cause and effect and interconnected by cause and effect.

If a butterfly flaps it's wings in Brazil does it cause a person to sneeze in China? Is a question chaos theory attempts to answer.

Here is the technical definition..

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 the 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, exhibiting an exponential error dispersion, 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, the phosphate starvation signaling pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, turbulent fluids, economics, and population growth, and the vast variety of thermodynamically open systems operating far from equilibrium.

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.

As well as being orderly in the sense of being deterministic, chaotic systems usually have well defined statistics. For example, the Lorentz system pictured is chaotic, but has a clearly defined structure. Weather is chaotic, but its statistics - such as climate - are not.

Answer 2

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. If you set up a program to run a pattern, any small variation can alter the pattern
Instead of the same pattern as before, it diverges from the pattern, ending up wildly different from the original.

This effect came to be known as the butterfly effect. The amount of difference in the starting points of the two curves is so small that it is comparable to a butterfly flapping its wings.
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.

Chaos Theory is also a heavy metal band from Trenton, N.J. I'm not sure exactly how they relate to our everyday lives.

Answer 3

The most important thing about the chaos theory is:-
You can find chaos in order and order in chaos.

To find order in chaos, is to search through a large amount of information/data and identify the patterns that might exist within that chaotic data. These patterns may be the answer you are looking for in the search for a solution.

A orderly system is not always best system, in reality such orderliness can create chaos, If everyone starts using air conditioners at once in an orderly manner, the overload will shut down a power station, then no one can use that system.

Answer 4

It's the theory that if Jeff Goldblum proposes something in a movie, people will make it into a Yahoo discussion in real life, and spend endless paragraphs substituting nonsense for valid science.

Answer 5

chaos theory is the theory in which you see the same patterns of data over and over again

i dont know how it relates, except some people think it has something to do with terrorism

this is what I KNOW, i dont know it that well myself

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
http://www.imho.com/grae/chaos/chaos.html
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/