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In James Gleick's book Chaos: Making a New Science, he tells a story about quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg. On his death bed, Heisenberg declared that he would have two questions for God: Why relativity and why turbulence. He said, "I really think He may have an answer to the first question." Chaos theory may not answer the second question, but it does offer a way to model the behavior of nonlinear systems, in which quantities vary over time or change from place to place in a manner that is not strictly proportional.
The equations for such systems generally cannot be solved or added together. These equations model the real world--instead of idealizing it--by including nasty nonlinear variables such as friction. In such seemingly random systems as...
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