No order, no organisation
The teaching on the course was so chaotic that no-one understood the subject and everyone failed the exam.
After the fire alarm sounded, the lights went out and everyone started running around trying to get out. People were trampled in the chaos.
2007-04-04 00:57:21
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answered by Anonymous
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The coloquial use of the word chaos (greek for disorder) is used to describe explosions and the aftermath of storms and wars. e.g. someone would say "after the earthquake there was chaos. People running everywhere, parts of houses strewn all over the place"
Chaos can also be used to describe the motion of particles in chemistry. e.g. "the movement of smoke particles in the beaker became more chaotic as we increased the heat"
However the use of the word chaos has changed in the last few years. With the advent of new ways of thinking came a theory called chaos theory. It is based on the idea that billions of years ago before the universal Big Bang there was Order. So there was Order then there was the Big Bang (chaos). Now there are two schools of thought on this. The first believes that the universe cyclically progresses from order to chaos. So as the Big Bang progresses, the gravitational pull on the outer reaches of the universe will cause it to implode, bringing everything back together, something uncommonly described as the Big Crunch. The second school of thought believes that the chaos is infinite, that the Big Bang will continue indefinately.
2007-04-04 01:04:13
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answered by Krames 1
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Chaos (derived from the Greek ΧάοÏ, Chaos) typically refers to unpredictability, and is the antithetical concept of cosmos. The word ÏÎ¬Î¿Ï did not mean "disorder" in classical-period ancient Greece. It meant "the primal emptiness, space" (see Chaos (mythology)). Chaos is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root ghn or ghen meaning "gape, be wide open": compare "chasm" (from Greek ÏάÏμα), and Anglo-Saxon gÄnian ("yawn"), geanian, ginian ("gape wide"); see also Old Norse Ginnungagap. Due to people misunderstanding early Christian uses of the word, the meaning of the word changed to "disorder". (The Ancient Greek for "disorder" is ÏαÏαÏή.). Mathematically, chaos means an aperiodic deterministic behavior which is very sensitive to its initial conditions, i.e., infinitesimal perturbations of boundary conditions for a chaotic dynamic system originate finite variations of the orbit in the phase space; see chaos theory.
2007-04-04 00:56:35
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answered by Indiana Frenchman 7
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Creativity without discipline is chaos.
Any disorder that is not systematic is chaos.
Any event that is neither a cause nor an effect is chaos.
2007-04-04 02:05:44
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answered by small 7
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No rules, no system of order, not even convention. Like putting a bunch of Americans on a cricket playing field and telling them they can't leave until the game is over.
2007-04-04 01:00:35
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answered by BidingMyTime 1
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Chaos is the opposite of order.
2007-04-04 00:52:37
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answered by clcalifornia 7
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Zero = Balance
One = Crowd
Two = Chaos
This conversation is chaotic!0!
2007-04-04 04:14:24
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answered by Alex 5
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Disorder, confusion, commotion, etc.
Example: The house was full of chaos.
2007-04-04 00:57:45
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answered by Anonymous
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it means something that is crazy or wild.
example: That party was complete chaos.
2007-04-04 00:51:10
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answered by Anonymous
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chaos is often merely thought of a wild and crazy...it is unpredictability...chaos refers to all things that cannot be predicted or foreseen...
2007-04-04 00:59:10
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answered by undeadninjamonkey 2
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