Chaos Theory
A name given to recent wide-ranging attempts to uncover the
statistical regularity hidden in processes that otherwise appear
random, such as turbulence in fluids, weather patterns, predator-prey
cycles, the spread of disease, and even the onset of war. Systems
described as "chaotic" are extremely susceptible to
changes in initial conditions. As a result, small uncertainties
in measurement are magnified over time, making chaotic systems
predictable in principle but unpredictable in practice.
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