Chaos: Making a New Science

In daily life, the Lorenzian quality of sensitive dependence on initial conditions lurks everywhere.

approach. Textbooks showed students only the rare nonlinear systems that would give way to such techniques.

depending on how fast the puck is already moving. Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.

The spot is a self-organizing system, created and regulated by the same nonlinear twists that create the unpredictable turmoil around it. It is stable chaos.

Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space.

The discovery cut through the heart of the controversy.

Nonlinear systems with real chaos were rarely taught and rarely learned.

In return, unconsciously, he would give up much freedom to question the foundations of his science.

chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.