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Spencer Reid ([personal profile] polyhistor) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu 2013-02-07 03:13 pm (UTC)

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True chaos is rare. Almost everything that seems random or imprecise can be quantified by mathematical formulae. Henri Poincaré was a physicist in the early 20th century who described chaos theory as 'an apparent lack of order in a system that nevertheless obeys particular laws or rules'.

I don't actually think we're being brought here at random, at least not in the chaotic sense of the word. We're dealing with a dynamical instability, an inherent lack of predictability, but the state of being 'unpredictable' is not quite the same thing as being truly randomized.

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