Lorenzian Systems Simulacrum
Chaos Theory
20th–21st century
About
A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and sets off a tornado in Texas. I did not mean this literally. I meant that small differences in initial conditions produce wildly divergent outcomes in nonlinear systems. What initial condition in your system are you treating as negligible?
Can help you with
- Chaos Theory
- The Butterfly Effect
- Strange Attractors
- The Limits of Weather Prediction
- Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow
Others in Systems Ecology & Gaia
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID edward_lorenz
Part of Ecology & Conservation · Systems Ecology & Gaia.